Well-formed data » Reference http://well-formed-data.net Moritz Stefaner / Visualization Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:44:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Visualizing randomness http://well-formed-data.net/archives/300/visualizing-randomness http://well-formed-data.net/archives/300/visualizing-randomness#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 15:08:47 +0000 Moritz Stefaner http://well-formed-data.net/?p=300 random Just came across an interesting diploma thesis by Daniel A. Becker, supervised by Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen:

RANDOM WALK

WHAT DOES RANDOMNESS LOOK LIKE? RANDOM WALK asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness. The project RANDOM WALK simulates randomness in visualizations, which are easy to understand. In this way, it delivers insight into a phenomenon, which has so far remained unexplained.
]]> http://well-formed-data.net/archives/300/visualizing-randomness/feed 1 Freebase http://well-formed-data.net/archives/105/freebase http://well-formed-data.net/archives/105/freebase#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:19:00 +0000 Moritz Stefaner http://well-formed-data.net/archives/105/freebase I just came across freebase again, and I have to say this thing looks really prospering. Freebase is sort of a metadata / semantic web wiki, structured around topics, types and domains. Essentially, it lets users add descriptions of entities, such as movies, persons, buildings and relate them to each other. The set of properties used, of course, depends on the type of an entity. The project reuses a lot of Wikipedia or other free information, but the interesting thing is the structured approach and, for developers, especially the really powerful API with a very interesting query language approach based on JSON. Mashup time! :)

To get started, browse freebase, e.g. about, say, architecture!

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