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."

Comments

Looks Cool

[powera]

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.

IPO Publicity Stunt?

[MDFedderly]

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.

Re:But news.google not covered by google API?

[mr_sas]

by uhm, reading the html on the news.google.com page?

The AS seems convoluted

[opencity]

As a minority (on \.) Flash guy (I like it, use it, and talk clients out of big ugly opening movies), the Action Script seems a bit too convoluted. In fact, here comes off-topic rant ...

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.