Credit: EPFL The popular game came last summer, the number of videos on YouTube increased it. In a demonstration of the awesome power of n...
The popular game came last summer, the number of videos on YouTube increased it. In a demonstration of the awesome power of network modeling, Kirell Benzi, a doctoral student at EPFL, all classified and presents it in an interactive graphics in 3-D.
Mathematics provides new tools that are made possible by advances in the performance and the development of information technology in the field of artificial intelligence. You can do what the human brain can not: of digital information processed quickly and accurately large quantities such as the content of thousands of Web pages of sites dedicated to this topic, the data collected by the observation of the telescope at a distant galaxy and the reactions of social media users. In addition to the classification and structuring of all this information, these algorithms can give visual form - with graph theory - to help interpret.
Kirell Benzi, which is completed at the EPFL Signal Processing Laboratory (lts2) his doctoral thesis, these tools to show new models to work and often surprising. after the discovery of unexpected dimensions of Star Wars - Saga , is now focusing his analytic vision of Pokémon GB.
Since this game was very popular this summer, stumbled the number of videos on YouTube with the word "Pokémon" in their title or description written simply. There were more than 25,000 after just two weeks almost 50,000 after a month, with more than seven billion visits. With Pokemon Go playlists, collected Benzi all - the simplest to the most crazy, from the lowest to the stranger - in all languages. Then they put in a virtual table interactive 3-D . Each of the 47,927 videos will be cataloged at the time of the study is represented by a point - a node - that is connected to other nodes from the playlist, to which they belong. Clicking on a node brings the video.
The study of virality
"The goal of my work is to use the incredible success of this game, to examine how things go viral", said Benzi whose work deals with graph theory and network modeling.
Now that he has collected all the videos in Pokemon Go, Benzi can move two to phase. I want to determine to analyze various parameters: What is the profile of the audience, where they are, what they want, such as the dissemination of information and through which channels, how they change over time speed and this, like all YouTube celebrities created?
But Benzi not only use calculations for scientific analysis. It's the spirit of invention and research diverse network of many models that he developed most artistic ends of his thesis.
He created an unusual exhibition - Singular Networks - which is designed to stimulate public interest in fundamental scientific questions. He was suspended for three months in the ELA-building art gallery on the EPFL campus.
Inspired by feedback from viewers, Benzi now intends to expand its activities to other datasets and share their passion for networks with a wider audience. His works will be exhibited The exhibition in Paris and London during the open house EPFL on November 5 and 6 and on the top floor of the building EPFL BC in February 2017. Traveling at the end of 2017th
The information about his work and art is on Facebook , Twitter and his blog to.
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More information: For more information about in the video - work Go Pokémon:
kirellbenzi.com/blog/gotta-catch-em-all-a-pokemon-data-viz/
kirellbenzi.com/blog/evolving-pokemon-network/
