By Farah Nayeri LONDON (Reuters) - People in London smile the least in their selfies while Moscow's selfie takers are predominantly women dressed to the nines, says a researcher involved in setting up a London show about selfies. For its new exhibition "Big Bang Data", Somerset House has commissioned "Selfiecity London," a spotlight on 640 selfies selected out of a total of 152,462 public Instagram images taken in a single week in September in a 5-sq-km (2-sq-mile) radius around the museum. The show opens to the public on Thursday. The Selfiecity project is led globally by Lev Manovich, a professor of computer science at City University of New York's Graduate Center. Selfiecity's eight-person lab compiles and analyses selfies from around the world, the five other cities so far being Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paulo. Manovich said the project was designed "to see if we can learn new things about cultural differences and cultural behaviour" from selfies, and to make such analysis more democratic for people who lack deep knowledge of computing. In that respect, he said the most important part of the "Selfiecity London" display was its interactivity function.
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