A simple magazine cover captures a piece of past culture, from usage of fabrics over time to magazine buzzwords and gender study. This project features the work of students and faculty and uses data analysis to exhibit the extensive history of the Vogue magazine and its corresponding biography.
- Sources
The covers for this extensive project came from the Vogue Archive, which contains every issue in Vogue’s history. The issues totalled to 6TB of data that was studied through multiple lenses to gain the most comprehensive understanding of the given information.
- Processing
Researchers used data processing programs such as pattern detection, skin tone analysis, topic modeling, n-gram search, advertisement topics, price statistics and more models. The model I found most interesting was the colormetric space model that plotted every issue cover onto a graph and visualized Vogue’s history of color, along with each year’s average color through analyzing the hue, saturation, and brightness.
- Presentation
The project is incredibly presented in many visual representations of many types of analyses. Researchers used tables, graphs and histograms, text, and images to make the complex and numerous conclusions easily interpretable by readers, for example word clouds that use size to show emphasis and repetition of words throughout Vogue issues.
I liked how you broke down the project so clearly. Especially since the initial impression of the subject matter, Vogue, implies artistry and design, one does not expect such a technical approach to the magazine. Breaking down the project is like breaking down the several elements involved in the making of a magazine.
Hi there,
While I chose to reverse engineer a different project, I really enjoyed how you broke down Robots Reading Vogue! I especially enjoyed how you organized the post and made it really easy to follow. By adding the bullet points to separate each part made it clear what topic you were talking about. Overall, I really liked the flow of the post!