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A New Google News Data Visualization, with Source
migurski writes "For those who liked the Newsmap, this new data visualization experiment focuses on time-based views of Google's news service, showing the ebb and flow of people and places covered, with archives back to February. All source code is available under a Creative Commons license, for those who like to play."
but,what is it for?
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It sure looks neat, but I'm not sure what use it will have. If the server dies, it has red and green bars that correspond to when a term (such as George Bush) is in the Google News "Making News" category. It probably is more useful over a long-term scale though, so I think we'll have to wait for it to be really useful.
This is truely the new wave in watching the news!
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It sure looks great, but i just cant understand how it (should) work.
But its fun. Prioritize!
Hivemind harvest in progress..
....ah now I understand....
never understimate the advantages of reading articles linked....
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Anyone else think that all of the new google inventions being released are not just for the product itself, but for the IPO? the google gmail invite machine is getting over 1000 hits per second, and is using an amazing amount of bandwidth. Although it may be a publicity stunt, I am pretty surpried with all of the nice innovations google is coming up with, to expand it's market from just search engines.
What's new since April?
But it's really cool. Fun to play with too.
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Its got some kind of bug in it..
When you click "mr. Reagan" (hehehe good luck searching, its on Sat. June 19, about 10 blocks from the far right end.
Notice the white thing aprearing top left ??
Hivemind harvest in progress..
I have no idea what's on that page, but it crashes Konqueror. It's just some flash stuff as far as I can see, and flash stuff is no problem, but that page dumps Konq.
Just thought I'd point it out for teh Konq users...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
I just installed Flashblock on Firefox so I could surf in peace on my old Linux laptop, and now this...
It's interesting enough but doesn't really give you much information - not that I could easily figure out anyway.
It would be nice to see the terms related to each other somehow... like in the hatemap on hatester.
This Like That - fun with words!
I got mine on the 3rd try, but I figure seeing the text of the screen will help you boys and girls that are trying to write SCRIPTS automatically keep trying the Gmail Machine!
And no, you're not getting my new gmail address! I want to keep it spam free.
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Did you ever stop to think that the reason that the archives go back to Febuary is that Febuary is when this tool was released? And did you ever look at the newsmap web site, where they credit this "new" site for the inspiration to make newsmap.
This thing seems confusing and incomplete after newsmap. You only get a noun-type 2-3 word blurb for each story. Its interesting for the time-based approach, but it doesn't seem very useful for actually browsing the news.
Slashdot should consider using some kind of treemap interface as an alternative interface, based on number of comments and clickthroughs and such. I would definitely use something like that, just on the front page, to see what's getting attention. If you're anything like me, you often scan the stories to see how many comments they've received, and thus where the raging debate is.
(Of course, newsmap was made in Flash, which a lot of Slashdotters are chronically allergic to. Cue chorus of FlashHatas(TM) in 3, 2, 1...)
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whatdya mean 'funny'? Offtopic.
Safari 1.2.2 (newest public version) seems to work fine.
I couldn't help but notice the following were listed as "losers":
John Kerry
George Bush
Tony Blair
Abu Ghraib
-jim
I can tell you what it's for: Mindspace tracking. A large number of people read the news every day. Each one of them gathers these little bits of information in some rough proportion to how often they're mentioned, filtered through their level of interest in any given subject.
Say you want to place ads, or make a strategy for getting your message out, or watch a news story explode and see which things get increasing print space over time proportional to how important they are. There you go.
For instance, if this has been the week after Howard Dean's "scream", we would have seen the coverage of that ramp up until it displaced a bunch of issues of much higher world importance.
It's something to think about. This tool seems sort of crude, but it's open source so it could be expanded.
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You could use this to create some sort of script to produce intelligent-sounding cocktail party conversation. Use references to the big gainers and the big losers for bonus points.
if it didn't make American media, it didn't happen.
the google API does not include Google news query rights, so how did they query google news?
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Or else I'm not up on the news :-)
It has "Paul Johnson" and "Paul M. Johnson, Jr." as two separate entries. So either they are two different people, or the display is inaccurate.
It is interesting to see Google data displayed this way. Probably most interesting simply because of how this visualization method has been already used for handling other extremely large data sets; DNA microarrays. Just take a look http://www.stanford.edu/group/cyert/
Back in 1998 SmartMoney came out with its Map of the Market which was a Java-based visualization of activity in the stock market. SmartMoney now has a whole set of maps that track technology, health care, Internet and telecommunications stocks, as well as several others.
While it wasn't the first attempt to graphically represent vast amounts of dynamic data with multiple dimensions, it was probably one of the first -- if not the first -- free online visualization tool that was popularized through the Internet.
Some people have commented that the Google News Map project isn't very useful. The SmartMoney map was a basic tool when it started but now the company has a (subscription-based) detailed data visualization tool (MapStation) based on the free version, as well as risk analysis maps and others.
Give it time and the people behind the Google News Map, or someone else, will come up with a more advanced map that will provide the type of utility you're looking for.
It first glance I liked the idea of a law that requires a program to be easily removed. This would make spyware (and some badly written, but useful software) easier to remove when I choose. But then I wondered about certain security patches that say, "Once this Security Patch is installed it cannot be removed." I see this with Windows all the time and suspect it applies to other OSs in certain cases. The law will need to be carefully written to exclude OS patches and the like or we could have a mess.
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Good lord I posted to the wrong thread. Sorry.
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spooks
or political spin meisters
or marketeers...
will be over this like fleas on a dog, a veritable feeding frenzy of drones - unless they've been there already
Warp factor 10, tin foil hats set to maximum...
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Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious
Sector maps are an efficient way to view mass amounts of quantitiative data but not for qualitative data such as news stories and articles. The perfect situation for sector maps are those where you have a large spreadsheet of historical data or data that changes over time. Stocks are a good example. Ticker symbols remain constant and each day there is a new volume of activity and %change. If MSFT does a large volume and decrease significantly over the previous day then I would expect a large dark red square. Apply this to news services, look at the nation and you will see an articles that looks like this:
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Konqueror 3.2.2 and 3.2.1 work fine for me. Both on different Gentoo boxes.
A bit offtopic, but I have two GMail invites to give away if anyone is interested... first two to respond with an email address.
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i like google newsmjap better http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
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I've been checking Newsmap fairly often. It seems similar in theme.
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http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.c
It hasn't taken "primary" status in my daily news reading, but it is an interesting "auxilliary".
Jim
Much of MX2004 is to ... uh ... widget-ie(?). I could do all of this in F5 and now, besides the usual relearn new interface gripes, it's gotten more obfuscated. Unless I'm wrong and just haven't gotten my head around it.
As for Googles page, close but ... IMHO the graphics don't improve on a barchart.
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