WorldLens: exploring world events through media
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Speiser, Jonathan Eliezer![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/91420/893608771-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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World Lens: exploring world events through media
Exploring world events through media
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
Advisor
Andrew B. Lippman.
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The goal of WorldLens is to provide a visual answer to the question: "what is happening in the world?" This thesis entails the design and development of a system that provides an exploratory view into world events across varied media types. The fundamental ideas are to take a data-driven approach by crawling a broad swath of content sources, and map the resulting data into an interactive visualization. WorldLens aims to obviate the need for an a priori search term, and instead focuses on facilitating informative discovery across news content from articles, web video, and broadcast television.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014. 36 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-73).
Date issued
2014Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.