How Fusion is automating the process of collecting and tagging images from the 2016 election
Fusion’s Political Image Machine captures every image the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates post on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, a process that Fusion has automated. Fusion is using a product called Clarifai to assign automatic tags to the almost 70,000 images, which uses a deep learning algorithm and allows images to be added in real-time. Fusion has also made its full dataset from Political Image Machine available for those interested in digging deeper.
READ MORE FROM:Try This at Home
MORE ARTICLES ABOUT:Fostering innovation, Photography and visual journalism