Creative Data: special issue of leonardo electronic almanac www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CreativeData.html –The *Creative Data* special issue of *Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA)* features papers and artworks that deal with the emerging practice of data visualization as an immersive experience. Data has long been the property and domain of screen-based collection, archiving, processing and interaction. The emergence of new processes, functionality and ways of interacting with information is opening up several new areas of great possibility in which the data allows newfound thematic and engaging forms of immersion, as well as innovative and perception-reshaping interaction. Guest edited by Jack Ox, Jeremy Hight and Erik Champion. Jack Ox, Jeremy Hight, and Erik Champion, Creative Data: Visualisation, Augmentation, Telepresence and Immersion www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Editorial.pdf Trish Adams, “Machina Carnis” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Adams.pdf Joe Faith, “Interactive Data Exploration with Targeted Projection Pursuit” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Faith.pdf Joanna Griffin, “Satellite Stories: Immersion in the Large-Scale Projection of Google Earth and Public Storytelling” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Griffin.pdf Cindy Keefer, “‘Raumlichtmusik’ – Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Keefer.pdf Carol LaFayette, “Atta, Palindrome” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Lafayette.pdf Luther Thie, “LA Interchange: A Real-Time Memorial” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Thie.pdf Klaus Wassermann, “lifeClipper – Commonality in Images” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_Wasserman.pdf Ruth West, et al., “Algorithmic Object as Natural Specimen: Meta Shape Grammar Objects from Atlas in Silico” www.leonardo.info/LEA/CreativeData/CD_West.pdf