WorldLens: exploring world events throughmedia; World Lens: exploring world events throughmedia; Exploring world events through media
Jonathan Eliezer Speiser · 2014
The goal of WorldLens is to provide a visual answer to the question: what is happening in the world? This thesis entails the design and development of a system that provides an exploratory view into world events across varied media types. The fundamental ideas are to take a data-driven approach by crawling a broad swath of content sources, and map the resulting data into an interactive visualization. WorldLens aims to obviate the need for an a priori search term, and instead focuses on facilitating informative discovery across news content from articles, web video, and broadcast television.