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Mapping Google News

Posted by timothy on from the that-hansel-he's-so-hot-right-now dept.

CousinLarry writes "A neat project called Buzztracker.org has been mining Google News for over a year and keeping track of relationships between geographic locations mentioned in articles. The results are some really cool maps that actually seem to reflect the "buzz" of the day - check out the Vatican clusters from earlier this month, or the global New Year's chatter. You can also dig down into the articles from which the maps were generated."

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  1. Re:Definitely on the Nifty List by FuturePastNow · · Score: 5, Informative

    This site has another list, of the sources Google News uses (something Google refuse to publish). Also an interesting use of data mining.

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  2. Shoulda thought of this earlier by nxtr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too bad. They have it already.

  3. Geographical links a little tenuous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Some of the smaller map points are a bit broken.

    There's a bunch of articles linked from a clickable hotspot in Nelson, a small-ish city in the South Island of New Zealand. They're all about people with a surname of "Nelson", as far as I can tell, nothing to do with the geographical aspect.

  4. Re:Nelson Mandela != Nelson town by Joff_NZ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, Nelson is probably one of the least newsworthy places on the planet.

    It however, it quiet, has stunning weather, awesome beaches, friendly hippy locals. Many nice holidays spent in and around Nelson :-)

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  5. Another cool google hack by digital+bath · · Score: 2, Informative

    www.paulrademacher.com/housing

    A cool combination of Craigslist housing listing and Google maps. Seems to be very well done.

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