WHY ARE ____ PEOPLE ____ ? : Perceptions of the world according to Google Suggest™
by Nara Kasbergen (nara@nara-designs.com)
This project seeks to explore our stereotypes and perceptions of the people of our own country and other countries using the Google Suggest API.
It searches Google Suggest for queries such as "why are americans" and "why are british people" and records the most common adjectives and phrases.
It then displays the attributes associated with each country in a PersonalDNA-like strip, color-coded
according to the positive, negative,
or neutral connotation of the phrase. Positive is green, negative is red, and neutral is blue.
The user can:
- Hover over any part of the "DNA strip" to uncover words that do not fit (ie. the label is wider than the part of the strip).
- Click on a word or phrase and see all the countries that have that trait, ranked by the percentage of their search results that that phrase takes up.
- Click on one of the tabs on the bottom to examine how the attributes change when different geographic localizations of Google are queried.
- Click on the name of a country to dim out the other countries. This setting is retained when switching tabs at the bottom, making it easier to
examine the changes in a specific country across the different geographic localizations of Google.
Source code: nk_project_1
Built with Processing