{"id":703,"date":"2017-10-09T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=703"},"modified":"2017-10-09T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:28:20","slug":"robots-reading-vogue-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/09\/robots-reading-vogue-behind-the-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots Reading Vogue: Behind the Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Behind the Scenes of Robots Reading Vogue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-704\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-09-at-10.32.16-AM-300x73.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-09-at-10.32.16-AM-300x73.png 300w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-09-at-10.32.16-AM-768x186.png 768w, http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-09-at-10.32.16-AM-1024x248.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dh.library.yale.edu\/projects\/vogue\/\">Robots Reading Vogue<\/a>\u00a0is a collection of data driven experiments to learn about fields from gender studies to computer science. This is done through analyzing color patterns, cover images, word usage, amongst other metrics. It is a joint project created by Lindsay King and Peter Leonard, who are both part of the Yale University Library staff. This blog post will primarily focus on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dh.library.yale.edu\/projects\/vogue\/coveraverages\/\">Averaging Covers in <em>Vogue<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sourcing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robots Reading Vogue is comprised of over 2,700 covers, 400,000 pages, and 6TB of data. Vogue has produced thousands of issues since 1892. Averaging Covers in\u00a0<em>Vogue<\/em> analyzes the covers in one year, every ten years. This project sources data from\u00a0Cond\u00e9 Nast and ProQuest LLC. Original Vogue material is copyrighted by\u00a0Cond\u00e9 Nast, and the Vogue Archive from ProQuest contains digitized pages of Vogue from 1892. Some other experiments used data such as word usage, advertising, pricing, and color information.<\/p>\n<p><em>Processing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Averaging Covers in\u00a0<em>Vogue<\/em> overlays all of the covers for issues in one year. This generates a &#8220;mean RBG value for each pixel.&#8221; Lindsay and Peter wanted the covers to align exactly when possible to generate the clearest possible pattern. They hand-aligned layers before generating pixel averages because raw data, combined with different scanning and photography methods, would not create strong images.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presentation<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The final presentation of this experiment is a series of images. Some interesting conclusions can be made. In 1970 and 1980, the VOGUE headline is in the same position on the cover in every issue. Because of this, the average pixel image has VOGUE shown as crisp as it is in one cover. The average pixel generation shows a fuzzy model who is relatively in the same position and has similar head angle. The visualization of 1940 shows a stark contrast. The VOGUE title is barely recognizable and the cover image is a disoriented mess. This means that each cover is unique from one another in terms of types of people, positioning, and word placement. These mid-century covers were artistic and individual, while the 1970 and 1980&#8217;s showed a &#8220;visual rut,&#8221; where covers resembled each other and showed little diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Vogue is one of the few magazines that has been published for over a century with relevant information and also has been completely digitized. This allows for thorough analysis and understanding of digital humanities. Averaging Covers in\u00a0<em>Vogue<\/em> shows the stylistic change of Vogue covers throughout the decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the Scenes of Robots Reading Vogue Robots Reading Vogue\u00a0is a collection of data driven experiments to learn about fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}