Crazy Aggregator Visualizes Google News
from Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton via Slashdot

Though it is now subject to the Slashdot effect, save this one and comeback to it in a few days.

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.

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