One API I found especially interesting is Google's Cloud Vision API This API allows users to understand the content of an image by classifying images into thousands of categories (i.e. "cat", "happiness", "Tokyo Tower"), detecting individual objects, faces, and printed words within images. Here are some examples of how it analysed some images on my desktop:
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It might be interesting to use this API in conjunction with the Google Street View API to analyse dominant colors, common patterns etc used in various landscapes around the world. In terms of politics, we may ask what exactly Google does with all of the images we are feeding the API.