Marcos Weskamp, a design engineer and "self-taught technologist" who likes to play with data visualization, has created a treemap display of Google News. Newsmap shows stories as blocks on a grid. The size of the block reflects a story's rating in Google's search algorithm. The color of a block reflects its broad subject matter (world, national,business, technology, sports, entertainment, health), selectable with tabs along the bottom. The country of origin can be selected from tabs along the top (like the "Can" tab highlighted in the example above). Rolling your cursor over a block produces pop-up text like the white box...

27 October, 2009