News: Newsmap
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. Its 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.
See for yourself at http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Note: at the top of the screen you can select UK news (or others from the list and/or remove US news) and at the bottom of the screen one or more categories of news can be selected.
Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
Produced and edited by John Dalziel (eLearning Adviser) JISC RSC-Northwest