News: Newsmap

IDevice Icon Displaying News

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