The article discusses the author's personal experience with local event discovery and how they utilized Diffbot's Knowledge Graph API to enhance their ability to find relevant city events. The author highlights the inconsistencies and challenges of traditional methods, like Facebook and Reddit, for keeping up with local happenings. By experimenting with Diffbot's visual search tool, they effectively filtered event data by location and date, ultimately finding nearly a thousand results for New Orleans, emphasizing the value of such automated approaches in information retrieval.
Having played with Diffbot's Knowledge Graph last month, I thought I'd do some digging to see what would be possible via their API.
To give you an idea of the size of the Knowledge Graph, this returned over half a million results.
This returned almost a thousand results... it would be useful to see events for the entire month.
I wanted to filter by a location... it’s easy to filter to a city.
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