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Neighborhood data via crawling

January 11th, 2008

Fascinating story about how Professor Berk originally deduced which restaurants and hotels where in which New York neighborhoods. Manhattan is a city notorious for ever changing neighborhoods but Matthew figured out a simple way to crawl the information. The resulting graphs are very cool.

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  1. Interesting Cool & Useful - Jan 08 - Dave Naffziger’s Blog said, on January 16th, 2008 at 2:47 am

    […] Deriving Neighborhood data. An interesting post on OpenList’s approach to understanding neighborhoods. This aligns with my thoughts on the semantic web - most semantic meaning will be derived by ‘intelligent agents’, not defined by content owners. Thanks (Rahul and Niki). […]