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fig. 00 Case study Live

Looked Up

What humanity looked up today.

Wikipedia across 30 languages, every hour, turned into attention events, forecasts and a live globe.

30 languages · updated every hour · 14 pre-registered hypotheses · €0

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The question

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What I built

The Looked Up app on a desktop screen, with the editors strip, the headline event and a world map. The same front page on a phone.

Architecture

In numbers

Three speeds

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The scorecard

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What the data said instead

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Three events

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Honest limitations

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Stack and practice

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