Hawaiian Island Popularity Based on Flickr
It was some time last year that I picked up the book, Flickr Hacks
, and started reading through some of the neat things you can do with Flickr. One of the hacks in Chapter 2 talks about tagging photos and a little web page (now discontinued) that someone created called flickrTagFight. The concept was very clever, where a visitor could enter two competing tags (such as Cat and Dog) and it would count and compare how many photos existed on Flickr for each and declare one of them victorious.
Inspired by that idea, I put it to use in somewhat of a different matter. On the Photo Tag Match page here at Ka'anapali Dreamin', I put the same concept to work as applied to the Hawaiian Islands. Specifically, it counts how many photos per island are posted to Flickr based on tags, and shows a grid and a chart to showcase the results.
At the moment, it looks like Maui has a rather comfortable lead (no surprise there). These numbers update about once an hour, and the Flickr home page, last I checked, seemed to be averaging about 3,000 new photos a minute. Grant it, those 3,000 new photos aren't all about Hawaii, but after a few days you can see the numbers grow.
I'm also thinking of taking this one step further at some point. To expand it, I'm debating whether or not I want to do something similar for the top 10 cities in Hawaii from across the islands, and see what comes of that. If and when I put that together, I'll post it here on the blog.
As always, let me know what you think. Again, you can find that new page here.
Mahalo.
, and started reading through some of the neat things you can do with Flickr. One of the hacks in Chapter 2 talks about tagging photos and a little web page (now discontinued) that someone created called flickrTagFight. The concept was very clever, where a visitor could enter two competing tags (such as Cat and Dog) and it would count and compare how many photos existed on Flickr for each and declare one of them victorious.Inspired by that idea, I put it to use in somewhat of a different matter. On the Photo Tag Match page here at Ka'anapali Dreamin', I put the same concept to work as applied to the Hawaiian Islands. Specifically, it counts how many photos per island are posted to Flickr based on tags, and shows a grid and a chart to showcase the results.
At the moment, it looks like Maui has a rather comfortable lead (no surprise there). These numbers update about once an hour, and the Flickr home page, last I checked, seemed to be averaging about 3,000 new photos a minute. Grant it, those 3,000 new photos aren't all about Hawaii, but after a few days you can see the numbers grow.
I'm also thinking of taking this one step further at some point. To expand it, I'm debating whether or not I want to do something similar for the top 10 cities in Hawaii from across the islands, and see what comes of that. If and when I put that together, I'll post it here on the blog.
As always, let me know what you think. Again, you can find that new page here.
Mahalo.
Labels: Flickr
posted by Kris Nelson at
12:59 AM
1 Comments:
To help trend out which islands could be catching up, I added a second set of data for the photos uploaded in the last 7 days.
I still want to do a little checking before I try to add various cities or beaches in Hawaii, just to see if that's something folks on Flickr use regularly.
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