Are your photos interesting?
We have dedicated a lot of effort to extracting, processing, and understanding the data from Flickr. We have also tried to analyze and use unsupervised learning methods to see if there are any patterns in the data. Luckily enough, the previous section helped us understand that there are intrinsic patterns in the data which are being used by Flickr to identify interesting photos of the day.
It would be interesting to see if we can answer the question, Will a given photo end up on the Explore page or not, by just using the metadata attributes we have been using so far in this chapter.
Preparing the data
Before we get started with building a classifier to answer the preceding question, we need some more data. Apart from the data we have collected so far (corresponding to interesting images only), we need to collect data related to photos which have never made it to the Explore page. Employing techniques similar to those we have used for collecting data for interesting...
