Wikimedia Research/Showcase/Archive/2017/04

April 2017

April 19, 2017 Video: YouTube

Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoods

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By Dr. Shilad Sen

While Wikipedia serves as the world's most widely reference for humans, it also represents the most widely use body of knowledge for algorithms that must reason about the world. I will provide an overview of WikiBrain, a software project that serves as a platform for Wikipedia-based algorithms. I will also demo a brand new system built on WikiBrain that visualizes any dataset as a topographic map whose neighborhoods correspond to related Wikipedia articles. I hope to get feedback about which directions for these tools are most useful to the Wikipedia research community. 

See also

• http://shilad.github.io/wikibrain/
• http://atlasify.northwestern.edu/
• http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
• http://cartograph.info
• m:Grants:IEG/WikiBrainTools
• T161554 -- Provide large disk space to WikiBrain for memory-mapped file