Hi Everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-
research. And, you can watch our past
research showcases here.
This month's presentations:
- Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoods
- 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.
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Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation