Many Languages, Many Colors Dataset

This is the data and project page for The Many Languages, Many Colors Project.

Data page organization

This project is divided up as follows:

• The "raw" directory contains the raw color naming data
• the "processing_scripts" directory contains the code we that takes the raw data and calculates information about color naming.
• the "model" directory contains the various models and calculations about color naming
• this directory and the "vis" directory contains the code of The Many Languages, Many Colors Project page and all the visualizations of the color naming data
• the "shared_files" directory has some utility files shared by both processing scripts and the vis code

Color Naming Data, Models, Translations, and Visualizations

Official Website is located at https://uwdata.github.io/color-naming-in-different-languages

This repository contains color data, processing, and visualization code from the project that resulted in our EuroVis paper, including:

• Color-name judgements that are collected from our 12 minute color perception survey on LabIntheWild
• Color naming probabilistic models for hue colors and full colors
• Interactive visualizations
  • Color Translator Finds similar colors in the same language or across languages.
  • The probabilities of terms for each hue color bin across 14 languages
  • Interactive version of the above
  • Maximum Probability Maps for English and Korean color names
  • Comparison of translations
  • The probabilities of viridis colors for some nameable terms

2019 EuroVis Paper Data (from prior to our updates)

Note: The old paper versions of the data and visualizations are in the "2019_paper_version" subfolder, and the visualizations are available here:

• 2019 Paper Interactive visualizations
  • Color Translator Finds similar colors in the same language or across languages.
  • The probabilities of terms for each hue color bin across 14 languages
  • Interactive version of the above
  • Maximum Probability Maps for English and Korean color names
  • Comparison of translations
  • The probabilities of viridis colors for some nameable terms

Cite us!

If you use the data in published research, please cite this paper: Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models. Younghoon Kim, Kyle Thayer, Gabriella Silva Gorsky, and Jeffery Heer (2019). EuroVis.