First get along theTumblrs , then the think pieces , then the distinction of beingword of the year . What else could there perchance be for selfies ? What about a immense data point task analyse how selfies around the world take issue in everything from mood to mouthgape to head inclination ?
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Selfiecity — which compares photos from Bangkok , Berlin , Moscow , New York , and Sao Paulo — may be the largest data point - driven exploration of selfies yet . Lead by Lev Manovich , a professor at CUNY , the project as a distinctly pedantic set . The datum visualization is play along by , yes , three more thinkpieces about thetheory of selfies .
The selfies themselves , all 3,200 of them , were download off of Instagram during a nine - day period in December . Then they were send to Mechanical Turk , where the selfies got tagged with judge age and humour . Here are some of the main findings sorted by city . Muscovites and New Yorkers , as you might expect , are a pertinacious gang compared to the other the city .
you could wreak with the whole dataset in theSelfiexploratory . For exercise , if you only want to see selfies of raging men looking up , well here you go .
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