Don't know what to think / do about this, but it's just so cool I have to pass it on.
Amalyah Keshet http://www.wolframdatasummit.org/2011/attendee/abstracts/#Manovich ... at the Wolfram Data conference (last week), here's an intriguing presentation: >> >> "How to Compare One Million Images? Visualizing Patterns in Art, >> Games, Comics, Photography, Cinema, Animation, Web, and Print Media >> >> Lev Manovich Professor, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) >> >> The explosive growth of cultural content on the web, including social >> media and the digitization work by museums, libraries, and companies, >> makes possible a fundamentally new paradigm for the study of cultural >> content. We can use computational data analysis and new interactive >> visualization techniques to analyze patterns and trends in massive >> cultural datasets. We call this paradigm cultural analytics. I will >> show examples of visualizations of patterns in cinema, animation, >> video games, magazines, and comics created in our lab >> (softwarestudies.com) at the University of California, San Diego >> (UCSD) and California Institute for Telecommunications and >> Information Technology (Calit2). The presentation will highlight new >> visualization techniques for big data that use next-generalization >> scalable displays such as the HIPerSpace system, which offers 35,840 x 8,000 >> pixels resolution." >> Thanks to Peter Brantley for noticing this.
