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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. Yes they do! by Ghoser777 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here's a website with both txt and pdf of the order to pull my app that parsed google news:

    http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/gn/gn.html/

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  2. Animation? by femto · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It would be really cool to see an animation of the map over time, to see how world attention 'sloshes' around. Even better if it was combined with a ticker showing which significant world event corresponds to each burst of activity.