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"The photos you take on Instagram are not just about you. Yes, the glamor shots of your dog, captured moments with friends, and gratuitous photographs your favorite meals do reveal a lot about you as an individual, but they can also say a lot about the city you live in. Phototrails, a collaborative research project between the University of Pittsburgh, the California Institute for Telecommunication and Information, and the Graduate Center at City University of New York, is using the patterns found in Instagram photos to create gorgeous “visual signatures” of cities around the world. “Our approach is to use big visual data to see what they can tell us about cultural and social patterns around the world,” says Lev Manovich, a professor of computer science at The Graduate Center, CUNY. “The goal is not to solve “practical” problems (such as better image search), but to explore this new visual universe of social photography.”"

 

The visual signature of San Francisco. Image: Phototrails

Source: Stinson, Liz. Infographic: Using 2 Million Instagram Pics to Map a City's Visual Signature. Wired. 07.23.13. WEB. http://www.wired.com/design/2013/07/what-your-instagram-photos-say-about-your-city/#slideid-167561

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