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Where does “Blue” end and “Red” begin?
What would you call these colors? We showed thousands of random colors like this to people on Mechanical Turk and asked what they would call them. Here’s what they said: The above picture contains...
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I just packaged and released the data set for our color names experiment. It has 10,000 color/label pairs. This is the download link. Read on for more details: I tried to generate the color patches in...
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Awesome cloud view of our color names data
Martin Wattenberg at IBM Research took our color names data and made a cool new cloud view: Instead of plotting each individual color name like in the original, he grouped together identical names,...
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Color flowers, networks, photos, and even 3D
Lots of people have been making great new visualizations of our color names data. Here are 4 more that folks have sent us. Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student at CMU HCI, combined our data with results...
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Beautiful Data
Brendan and I wrote a chapter for an O’Reilly book called Beautiful Data. We took a lot of the analysis from earlier blog posts and distilled it into a longer book chapter about exploring a large data...
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What Color is this? in 9 languages
I’ve always wanted to re-do some of the scientific studies of the past, like the World Color Survey. While I don’t have plane tickets or time to travel the world, I do have access to CrowdFlower’s 4...
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