Viewing the World through Wikipedia
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SGI has partnered with Kalev H. Leetaru of the University of Illinois to create the historical mapping and exploration of the full text contents of the English-language edition of Wikipedia, in time and space. The results include visualizations of modern history captured in under a day utilizing in-memory data-mining techniques. Loading the entire English language edition of Wikipedia into SGI UV 2000, Leetaru was able to show how Wikipedia’s view of the world unfolded over the past two centuries. Location, year and the positive or negative sentiment have been tied to those references. Franz Aman, Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Strategy, SGI said, “This analysis allows the world to take a step back from the individual articles and text to gain a forest view of the tremendous knowledge captured in Wikipedia, not just a page by page tree view. We can watch how one of the largest collections of human knowledge has evolved and s