The dataset that I’ve chosen to use is a collection of 223,128 Japanese woodblock prints collected from museums, collectors, dealers, Universities and more.
Ukiyo-e.org

The Ukiyo-e dataset is fantastic. It’s easy to use, gathers data from a huge number of …

For my image project, I want to use the tiny image database. It’s a set of almost 80 million 32×32 images. I really find the idea of having small, terrible quality pictures on this scale interesting.

Unfortunatly I don’t …

My image data set is fingerprints (8000 images). I have them tagged by the type of fingerprint (loop) and the gender of the person.

Source of data: http://www.nist.gov/srd/nistsd4.cfm

I was initially hoping to make portraits out of this data. I …

I am using Alexander Street Press’s database of 4,032 unique plays, acquired through the CMU library for datamining.

I am going to use this dataset to create visualizations around the idea of highly contextualized NLP since in play texts the …

dataset:  images of pills (http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/developer.html#api).  I’m really interested both because I find it really beautiful, but I’m interested in how pills are designed based off of their function.

I hope to find some linkage between condition and pill.  I find …

I’ve selected ROAD 2.0, a database of billboards and other outdoor advertisements ranging from about 1885 to the 1990s, courtesy of Duke University Libraries. I’m interested in advertisements for what they can reflect about whose needs represented and whose …

I’m interested in the Google Streetview database (https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/) since it contains images for just about every point along a road in the US.  Roads have fundamental ties to the physical systems of modern civilizations, so analyzing them is likely to …

I’ve selected a dataset of 5640 describable textures. See “bumpy”, “crosshatched”, and “braided” below.

I am interested in this dataset because it offers a variety of images, pulled out of context, and isolated by their similar texture characteristics.

For …

I am working with 5900 Drawings of God by children from 6 different countries.
I was at first interested in different ways children depicted god “visually” across cultures.

As of now I’m considering different approaches to presenting these interesting …