Flickr cities

ISI Foundation - Data Science Lab

Flickr Cities is an exploratory interface to browse the millions of images shared by Yahoo Labs in its amazing Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100M dataset. Filter the dataset by location, date and time, topic, photographer's nationality or combine the different parameters to see weekend night parties, sunday morning activities, or the difference between DSLR photographs and smartphone snapshots.

Please hold on, we're getting a lot of data.

This may take a while, like a couple of minutes or so.
Once the data is loaded, you will be able to explore the dataset by filtering the different on date and time, tags, location and more.

Downloading photo metadata
Parsing metadata
Creating filter indexes
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Topic clustersBack to filters

The following clusters represent groups of photos that share some tags and are taken in similar locations. Clicking on any given cluster you can see the tags that make up the group of images, and the locations in which it is most present. Calculating components...

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Topic clusters

Date

Hour

Weekday

Device

Credits

Flickr Cities has been designed and developed by DataInterfaces, a collaborative laboratory founded by Fondazione ISI - Data Science Lab and Politecnico di Milano. The dataset is provided by Yahoo Labs. This project was partially supported by the KNOWeSCAPE COST Action TD1210. For more information see the DataInterfaces blog post.

TEAM

Marco Quaggiotto
Rob Poelmans
Mariano Beiró
André Panisson
Ciro Cattuto

Rob Poelmans participated thanks to support from
Erasmus University College Brussels

DATASET

"The New Data and New Challenges in Multimedia Research" by Bart Thomee, David A. Shamma, Gerald Friedland, Benjamin Elizalde, Karl Ni, Douglas Poland, Damian Borth, and Li-Jia Li, arXiv:1503.01817.