TIME

CODE: GitHub
DATATYPE: images
SOURCE: TIME vault
YEARS: 1923-2014
SIZE: 3,546
SUBSET: random sample
VIZTYPE: map
FEATURES: HSV histogram
FEAT SRC: scikit-image
ORIG FEAT DIMS: 24
EMBEDDING: t-SNE
BINS: 102
GRIDDING: fill
CRITERION: adjacency
ANNOTATIONS: histogram lines
% ANN: 53

This is a "map" visualization, meaning that the images are plotted in a coordinate space — here, a 2D t-SNE embedding of a 24-dimensional HSV histogram space. The images are randomly sampled from nearly 90 years of TIME magazine pages. The amount sampled is roughly the number of pages in TIME magazine for an entire year (which surprisingly has not changed much over time). Images are allowed to plot adjacent to their true locations, but no further. Over 95% of all sampled images were plotted. The map is also partially annotated with histogram lines. Blue markers point to the annotated images.