Comments on: Noel Cressie on Dance and Statistics http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/2009/03/noel-cressie-on-dance-and-statistics/ from dance to data to objects Mon, 28 May 2012 13:56:27 -0400 hourly 1 By: Tal Galili http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/2009/03/noel-cressie-on-dance-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-10516 Tal Galili Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:56:20 +0000 http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/?p=231#comment-10516 Hello, I love the combination you've made with dance and statistics. Is there any chance you'll upload the video to youtube? (seeing it on the flash site is not working so well) Thanks! Tal Hello,
I love the combination you’ve made with dance and statistics.

Is there any chance you’ll upload the video to youtube? (seeing it on the flash site is not working so well)

Thanks!

Tal

]]> By: admin http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/2009/03/noel-cressie-on-dance-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-42 admin Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:50:38 +0000 http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/?p=231#comment-42 Hi pam for some reason I'm only now seeing this comment. It is an interesting idea that may or may not be possible. It depends a lot on the nature of the reduction you are making and what kind of data you're using. I remember reading some interesting work like this on Jackson Pollack and fractals. I'm not sure how useful it would be for dancers in a generative sense but it is always interesting to learn more about your practice and to delve its depths. Hi pam for some reason I’m only now seeing this comment. It is an interesting idea that may or may not be possible. It depends a lot on the nature of the reduction you are making and what kind of data you’re using. I remember reading some interesting work like this on Jackson Pollack and fractals. I’m not sure how useful it would be for dancers in a generative sense but it is always interesting to learn more about your practice and to delve its depths.

]]> By: Noel Cressie http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/2009/03/noel-cressie-on-dance-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Noel Cressie Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:45:21 +0000 http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/?p=231#comment-23 Nice question...there have been statistical studies on identifying authors according to the lengths of words in their works. In cases of unknown authorship, inference can be made as to who is likely to have written the work. In the case of summarizing a choreographer by his/her visual "object" of the sort we build, we would be comparing patterns between choreographersvisually. It would be a big step now to find a statistic and do the inference that would allow us to classify the choreographer based on the statistic. Still, the visual comparison is interesting in its own right. Nice question…there have been statistical studies on
identifying authors according to the lengths of words
in their works. In cases of unknown authorship, inference
can be made as to who is likely to have written the work.
In the case of summarizing a choreographer by his/her
visual “object” of the sort we build, we would be comparing
patterns between choreographersvisually. It would be a big
step now to find a statistic and do the inference that would allow us to classify the choreographer based on the statistic.
Still, the visual comparison is interesting in its own right.

]]> By: Pam Frost Gorder http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/2009/03/noel-cressie-on-dance-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Pam Frost Gorder Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:23:44 +0000 http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu/blog/?p=231#comment-18 Interesting project! I wonder if you could use this tool to identify patterns that are unique to the choreographer. Painters, for instance, exhibit certain patterns in their brush stokes that make their work identifiable by statistical analyses. The same is true for writers and their unique word patterns. You may have developed a tool that would reveal a choreographer's unique "signature." Then, given data from lots of choreographers, you could ask the tool to identify the authorship a new piece by a known choreographer. Noel, do you think that would be possible? What would you have to do to make it happen? And Norah, would identifying such a signature be useful for choreographers or dancers? Interesting project! I wonder if you could use this tool to identify patterns that are unique to the choreographer. Painters, for instance, exhibit certain patterns in their brush stokes that make their work identifiable by statistical analyses. The same is true for writers and their unique word patterns. You may have developed a tool that would reveal a choreographer’s unique “signature.” Then, given data from lots of choreographers, you could ask the tool to identify the authorship a new piece by a known choreographer. Noel, do you think that would be possible? What would you have to do to make it happen? And Norah, would identifying such a signature be useful for choreographers or dancers?

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