Thanks to my friends at DailyCandy, I have been turned on to the Newsmap news service and its novel and quirky visual representation of news dissemination and reporting across the globe. Not only does it look cubist and cool, but read this description from its creators;
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google 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.
Um, algorithms? So cool! I love the news.
- Katy
- A career fashion buyer with an eye for the elegant but indefatigable desire to become a decor dilettante. Sloane Home is my virtual inspiration board slash shopping list for my proper-meets-preppy aesthetic as imagined for a make-believe mansion.