Thursday, June 7, 2007

Harvesting what we mine


Some things were found. Ideas on harvesting from the many data mines we have. Using Google to answer questions it was not designed to answer or using it's answers in an unexpected context.

I am sure there are some really tricky and smart things to do with this but I am not sure what they are.

Perhaps one would be to use Google trends to get past data on locations or some other relevant search-able thing and then a 4 dimensional representation could be made of the data which would indicate how interest has evolved and how it has done so comparatively. I think there are surely better uses.

Here are a few samples of this idea in place:
1. Chess and things
2. Go keyboards
3. Suicide

In addition to mapping things like this there is a lot of work to be done with connecting images and videos based on search. Photosynth is a early effort at making this realistic.

Any ideas?

The image is one I made from a video off my phone. It demonstrates the idea of dimensional reduction to add richness. I think similar tools have great application in vibration removal.

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