What One Little Button Reveals About The New York Times 'Brain' - The
Atlantic

Pattern recognition is, of course, a skill computers have, too
<http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/humans-are-the-worlds-best-pattern-recognition-machines-but-for-how-long>.
And machines can group data at scales and with speeds unlike anything a
human brain might attempt. It's what makes computers so powerful and so
useful. And seeing the structural framework for patterns across vast
systems of categorization can be enormously revealing, too. Which is why a
seemingly small adjustment to TimesMachine
<http://timesmachine.nytimes.com>—the
astonishing archival trove that lets *New York Times* subscribers explore
millions of pages of past newspapers—is actually a pretty big change.

"People are somewhat overwhelmed when presented with the entire archive
like, 'Here's 11 million articles. Go find what you want,'" said Evan
Sandhaus, who is the director of search, archives, and semantics at the
*Times*. "We thought there would be a real need to sort of guide people
into the archive."


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