Keebaik Sim
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Seeing the Unseen: Signs as Immigrants’ Identity

Seeing the Unseen uses algorithms conducting visual analysis to examine to what extent an area retains or loses its immigrant identity. I analyzed the visual changes through time in signs in Chinatown, NYC by using this technology. 

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