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. [1]
Google
News automatically groups news stories with similar content and places them
based on algorithmic results into clusters. In Newsmap, the size of each cell
is determined by the amount of related articles that exist inside each news
cluster that the Google News Aggregator presents. In that way users can quickly
identify which news stories have been given the most coverage, viewing the map
by region, topic or time. Through that process it still accentuates the
importance of a given article.
NewsMap
was created by Marcos Weskamp, a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in
playing with and visualizing lots of data. He is a self-taught technologist
who, as he says, constantly investigates the fields of Interaction Design and
Information Visualization. You can also access NewsMap from our sidebar
NewsRoom section here at Metronome.
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