Description

Images of the official magazines by the IS and the images founded on Google Images are compared in this visualization to study where the similarities and the differences are located when considering the color models. This comparison offers an overview on the differences of standards of communication conducted by two entities that perceive the phenomenon in a diametrically opposed way. The first part shows the totality of all the color models extracted from the google images on the left and from the magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah on the right. The second part shows a synthesis of the first part displayed for direct comparison. The difference in color for the official magazine carried out by the IS and the mostly-dark colors resulting from the google images is instantly visible.

Protocol

Color models datasets for both Google Images and the images contained in the official magazines were used to generate the first part of the visualization. Every color model extracted by the Clarifai APIs is displayed and ordered by HEX value; the visualization was done in NodeBox. The difference in amount of color models indicates the different size of the two corpus of images — 255 for Google Images versus 1197 for Dabiq and Rumiyah. The resulting visualization was then analyzed again with Clarifai APIs to extract the main color models from the total of the two corpus. The two images were uploaded on GitHub to retain the raw URLs needed by Clarifai; the URLs were collected with Web Scraper. The resulting JSON file was converted into an excel file using OpenRefine. The visualization was done in NodeBox.

Data

Timestamp: 07/12/2016 - 11/12/2016

Data source: Clarifai

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The first dataset has one column that identifies the query on Google Images, one column has the urls of the images, hence the images file names for identification, and columns for hex color codes, w3c hex color codes, w3c color names, and finally the color density. The dataset has a single page dedicated per each query and one page with all the data together.

The second dataset has one column that identifies the edition of the official magazine along with a column that contains the name of the magazine, one column has the urls of the images, hence the images file names for identification, and columns for hex color codes, w3c hex color codes, w3c color names, and finally the color density. The dataset has a single page dedicated per each query and one page with all the data together.

The third dataset has the url of the two total images, a column for the hex color codes, one for the w3c hex color codes, w3c color names, and finally the color density. The dataset has a single page dedicated for each of the two images.