Something Witty

Entrepreneur of many hats. Lover of all things tasty. Barnard, Columbia grad '11. http://www.linkedin.com/in/lchelak.

twitter.com/larachelak:

    The enormous dataset provides a global picture of “what the world is paying attention to”, the researchers say. They ran statistical analyses to identify the more important clusters on each map. Next they analysed the text tags added to photographs in those clusters, as well as key visual features from each image, to automatically find the world’s most interesting tourist sites. (via Gallery: Flickr users make accidental maps - tech - 27 April 2009 - New Scientist)

    The enormous dataset provides a global picture of “what the world is paying attention to”, the researchers say. They ran statistical analyses to identify the more important clusters on each map. Next they analysed the text tags added to photographs in those clusters, as well as key visual features from each image, to automatically find the world’s most interesting tourist sites. (via Gallery: Flickr users make accidental maps - tech - 27 April 2009 - New Scientist)

    — 2 years ago