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24 alternatives to Profiling the Unseen - A journey across Taipei, Delhi and San Francisco

A photobook depicting lives & dreams of people around us

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Profiling the Unseen - A journey across Taipei, Delhi and San Francisco launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o▲285
Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World▲56
Investigation of key ideas that have shaped our urban spaces
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3
Wanderlust▲61
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4
Imaginary Cities▲70
Mapping cities of sound, melancholia and the afterlife
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5
Envisioning Information▲87
A remarkable range of examples of visual thinkinking
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
99% Invisible - Pagodas and Dragon Gates▲69
The history of San Francisco's China Town
2015 · its alternatives →
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Mapping Experiences▲69
A complete guide to creating value through journeys
2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →
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Kooba▲141
An interactive graph for finding new books
2017 · its alternatives →
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Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art▲71
Taschen tome profiling "The City as Canvas"
2015 · taschen.com · its alternatives →
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Spotted Places▲89
Discover new experiences from friends.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Mapping Manhattan▲67
Gorgeous maps through the eyes of 75 New Yorkers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
All New Spottly▲92
World's first picture-based travel guide
2017 · its alternatives →
13
Designing the Invisible▲69
Create great web experiences
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Globestudio▲84
Open-source dotted maps and 3D globes for designers
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cite▲142
Beautiful textshots made easy
2015 · myprogress.in · its alternatives →
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NoFilter▲108
Discover great photo locations all over the world.
2019 · getnofilter.com · its alternatives →
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Queryable Gallery▲107
Allows you to find a photo in albums use a text description
2023 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Subtle Patterns▲53
A plethora of background patterns for Photoshop
2015 · its alternatives →
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Views▲118
Discover spots by locals
2017 · its alternatives →
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Dreamer Map▲67
See the dreams people are having around the world
2023 · dreaminterpreter.ai · its alternatives →
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Photo Map▲126
Let your photos tell the story
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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World View Wallpaper▲97
Experience the world through your wallpaper
2015 · worldviewwallpaper.com · its alternatives →
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Explorer's Atlas▲67
Beautiful wall map filled with fascinating world facts
2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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The Sketchbook Project▲87
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