Let’s find random things on the street with full-text search! - Yufeng Zhao at !!Con 2024

Let’s find random things on the street with full-text search! Imagine being able to find every “best pizza” shop sign, every “No Parking” notice, or every piece of street art in Brooklyn - without leaving your chair. In this talk, Yufeng will unveil “all texts in Brooklyn” (https://brooklyn.textual.city/) , a project that turns Google Street View into a searchable text database. Yufeng will walk through the process of building this full-text search engine, demonstrate interesting search results, and showcase data visualizations that reveal hidden patterns in Brooklyn’s urban typography. Yufeng Zhao is an artist, technologist and designer based in Brooklyn. His work addresses data, imagery/language processing, and experience design. Through a blend of web-based projects, video works, and tangible installations, his practice explores unexpected connections embedded in our techno-cultural landscape and the interactions between humans and machines. He is a part of the Switcheristic Telecommunications (), an artist collective focusing on assembling and presenting atypical data. Presented at !!Con 2024 (pronounced, of course, "bangbangcon"!) in Santa Cruz, CA -- https://bangbangcon.com/ !!Con is a production of the Exclamation Foundation -- https://exclamation.foundation/ Video Production by Confreaks Follow Confreaks 👇 https://confreaks.com https://x.com/confreaks