NewsMap--Graphic Display of All News Articles Read Over the Internet

[On the Road]

Fascinating concept -- Edward Tufte would approve. You can select differet countries, different time periods, and different news categories.

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"Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. It's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it. "



http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

[madrchsod]

1. dam ,i`m in heaven now

what a great site... you get "a tip of the ol`e hat" from me. thanks

[mhr]

2. The US Sports Obsession Is Blatantly Obvious Heaven Help Us

eom

[Old and In the Way]

3. Fascinating perspective of what people read......bookmarked.

thanks!

[caledesi]

4. LOVE IT! Thanks RF. nt

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. This is perhaps the coolest thing ever.

Thanks Ribofunk!

:thumbsup:

[gardenista]

6. If you like that, try Grokker

A visualization tool for web-based and other searches:





http://grokker.com/