FTM is a shared library for Max/MSP providing a small and simple real-time object system and a set of optimized services to be used within Max/MSP externals.

FTM = data structures
+ visualization/editors
+ file import/export (SDIF, MIDI, ...)
+ operators (expressions and externals)
The basic idea of FTM is to extend the data types exchanged between the objects in a Max/MSP patch by complex data structures such as sequences, matrices, dictionaries, break point functions, tuples and whatever might seem helpful for the processing of music, sound and motion capture data.

The FTM library and its Java editors are based on the jMax project and distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). The sources of FTM are available via CVS at SourceForge.net

OpenTimeLine is a project to provide to the community a framework and a new kind of Music sequencer dedicated to graphical scores. It use the fudi protocol to sequence events for Pure Data.

Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free.

Max/MSP interface to The Echo Nest's audio analysis API

jHepWork ("jWork") is an interactive environment for scientific computation, data analysis and data visualization designed for scientists, engineers and students. The program incorporates many open-source math software packages into a coherent interface using the concept of scripting, rather than only-GUI or macro-based concept.

jHepWork can be used with several scripting languages for the Java platform, such as Jython, (the Python programming language), JRuby (the Ruby programming language) and BeanShell. This brings more power and simplicity for scientific computing. The programming can also be done in the native Java.

Bloom is creating a new type of visual discovery experience on tablets, media consoles, and modern browsers that will provide you with playful, explorable, visually compelling views on personally relevant information from services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and iTunes.

These Bloom Instruments aren’t merely games or graphics. They're new ways of seeing what's important.

Detritus 119

“…the content of the Pure Data application is read as pure data, directly displayed as sounds and pixels….”

NotationalDatabase.blor

data, big data, databases, relational databases and other foundational issues

DIDO involves intentionally combining signals from multiple transmitters, exploiting interference to create a bubble of crystal-clear reception around every user. Each signal that leaves an individual transmitter is incomprehensible until it encounters, and interferes with, other DIDO signals near a device connected to the network.

The Clear Congress Project [clearcongressproject.com] by Thomas Gibes is a real-time visualization of US Congress data made available through the Sunlight Labs' Real Time Congress API, Google News, Twitter, and other data sources. The aim of the project is to serve as a possible model for facilitating governmental transparency beyond simple data access by proposing a new format for polical news distribution.

What 12 million human emotions have to do with civilian air traffic and the order of the universe.

In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people.

Media Computation Data Structures Book Slides

I'd like to humbly announce that the first beta invites for a project I’m incredibly excited about are out the door. The project is called ifttt, shorthand for “if this then that”.

processing form data with php

Are you looking for an easy way to create forms and either submit the data to an email address, store it in a mySQL database or do both at the same time?

Construct is a python library for parsing and building of data structures (binary or textual). It is based on the concept of defining data structures in a declarative manner, rather than procedural code: more complex constructs are composed of a hierarchy of simpler ones. It's the first library that makes parsing fun, instead of the usual headache it is today

Inside Facebook’s Not-So-Secret New Data Center

Facebook is giving away the blueprints for what should be the most efficient data center ever built.

A place for people interested in self-tracking to gather, share knowledge and experiences, and discover resources

Simon Rogers picks the 10 best places to see 'sexy' data online.

The Obama administration is backing legislation to protect the personal data of Internet users, toughening its stance from a call last year for voluntary codes of conduct for data companies and advertisers.

Gnip provides social media data to businesses that build realtime social media integrations into their business and consumer applications. Receiving your social data from Gnip enables easy integration of massive quantities of realtime social data into your product, legally and reliably. Many of the largest social media monitoring companies in the world rely on Gnip to provide them with data from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and dozens more sources. Whether you want keyword-specific data, username-specific data, or a full or partial firehose stream of data, Gnip can be your social media data provider.

A new National Endowment of the Arts study has looked back into the data from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. Expanding the definition from "benchmark" activities (like going to the opera) to the creation and viewing of art or art-related content digitally has yielded a radically different picture of American's relationship to the arts.

Text mining software from Collective Intellect, a company based in Boulder, Colorado, scrutinizes posts on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, and message boards to help businesses learn what's being said about their products. The company's software uses a suite of algorithms to scan text and work out what a person is referring to and with what emotional tone

Everyone recognizes that technology is destroying long-standing business models in news, music, and other media industries, but the next few years could also bring wracking changes in numerous other businesses, such as insurance, retail, cars, medicine, toys, and utilities.

The reason lies in the third wave of personal computing. The first, beginning in the late 1970s, gave us PCs. The second, the Internet revolution of the 1990s, hooked all those computers together. The third is letting us essentially carry the Internet with us, on smart phones, tablets, and other devices. Cameras and sensors are becoming cheap and ubiquitous. Every person and device will be able to talk to any other person or device, anytime and anywhere. And operating in this world of infinite connections will change almost everything for businesses.

America is a nation of Smiths, Johnsons, and Sullivans—but also of Garcias and Nguyens. Zoom in on the map below to see what surnames proliferate in your part of the country.

The common statistical thread between psychiatric diagnosis and grad school rankings.

Awesome stuff -- and proof that even though we're visual creatives, sound is a totally under-appreciated tool for rendering data intuitively.

Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates.

Dropbox is an amazingly useful combination of a Web service and a Mac OS X program that work together to make your data accessible from anywhere and to keep it synchronized between your computers

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.

Google Refine is another open source project from Google that deserves attention — quite a lot of it. This is a great tool for cleaning messy data sets and for performing advanced operations on your data, such as transformation from one format to another or data augmentation.

The three-story-high Allosphere creates unique visualizations.

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to information from a variety of applications, services, and stores.

Interactive graphics that engage a mass audience. Realtime displays of social media streams. Visualizations that let experts find hidden patterns. Let your data do the talking.

Disco is an implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, which was publicized by Google, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers. This makes it a perfect tool for analyzing and processing large datasets without having to bother about difficult technical questions related to distributed computing, such as communication protocols, load balancing, locking, job scheduling or fault tolerance, which are taken care by Disco.

Apparently, the address of Walter and Rose Martin's Brooklyn home was used to test a department-wide computer system in 2002.

What followed was years of cops appearing at the Martins' door looking for murderers, robbers and rapists - as often as three times a week.

Data visualizations for a changing world

​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings

Through education and training programs, the creation and management of visualization facilities, and advanced visualization research, the visualization technology group (VTG), promotes the use of visualization and virtual reality technologies for improved understanding of scientific data and human cognition.

OPeNDAP: Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol

OPeNDAP is a framework that simplifies all aspects of scientific data networking.

OPeNDAP provides software which makes local data accessible to remote locations regardless of local storage format. OPeNDAP also provides tools for transforming existing applications into OPeNDAP clients (i.e., enabling them to remotely access OPeNDAP served data).

If you work with medical imaging files, this site can help you.

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Alberto de Campo
Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM)
University for Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria
decampo[at]iem.at

To shave milliseconds off their execution speeds, high-frequency trading firms look to capitalize on colocation strategies and other technologies to get close to exchange matching engines and reduce latency.

The Vamp audio analysis plugin system

Vamp is an audio processing plugin system for plugins that extract descriptive information from audio data — typically referred to as audio analysis plugins or audio feature extraction plugins.

I'm Debra Lauterbach, a masters student in Human-Computer Interaction and Social Computing at the University of Michigan, graduating in December 2009. My focus is on user research, including both quantitative and qualitative methods. I also have interests in online communities, information visualization, and data analysis

An interpretative interface to changes in the United States Homeland Security Advisory System.

Data source can be found here. http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/history/editorial_0844.shtm

Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. It's all relative right?

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how does the internet see you
Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data.

ref: zoe keating tweet

Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service.

Daniel Jacobson Will Talk About the NPR Open API at OSCON