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InArticle - text analysis and visualization

Locus: Afghanistan - news archive visualization of Guardian articles about Afghanistan (and Iraq)

courtenaybird:

The Lifespan of a Link - NYTimes.com

Pop quiz. How long do you think a fresh new link lasts online before people stop clicking on it? The answer: on average, just shy of 3 hours. If you ask the same question about a news-related link, the answer is a measly 5 minutes. 

Text Analysis (Sebastian Meier)

With Text Analysis, Meier created an experimental interface for analyzing news texts which he collected from CNN, New York Post, MSNBC, Guardian, New York Times and BBC for about a week. The  data was then analysed and visualized in an Java/Processing Interface. See for yourself:

Even in this relatively experimental state we can see some interesting conculsions for example in national and international differences. The interest for example in ‘climate-change’ or better the appearance of the word ‘climate-change’ is a lot higher in uk-news sites than us-news sites. The same conclusions in matter of national interests, like the word ‘Barack Obama’, which shows up a lot more often on us-news sites than on uk-news sites.

via InfraBodies

submap v2.0: ebullition 

Ebullition visualises and sonificates data pulled from one of the biggest news sites of Hungary, origo.hu. In the 30 fps animation, each frame represents a single day, each second covers a month, starting from December 1998 until October 2010.

Whenever a Hungarian city or village is mentioned in any domestic news on origo.hu website, it is translated into a force that dynamically distorts the map of Hungary. The sound follows the visual outcome, creating a generative ever changing drone.

it’s like watching mud pots.

Type Case - type case fitted with 125 LEDs that serves as a news ticker

by Martin Bircher

nerdgasms:

kelsium:thepoliticalpartygirl:

Every day, thousands of stories are passed around the internet on blogs and via Twitter. A new study by Journalism.org has examined the source of those stories. It turns out, most of them come from old-school media. We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning’s newspaper. This is a look at where blogs and Twitter users are getting their stories, and what kind of stories their users are most likely to link to.

(Good)

Current: A News Project

Through a combination of data from Google Hot Trends and cross-references via Google News, the last 24 hours of memes are charted over time. The focus is on providing a tool that allows journalists to report news that matters, without sacrificing the reader traffic that comes in for videos of cute puppy dogs.

via FlowingData

gooey:

rachelmercer:

This is a really fantastic and interesting interactive visualization. Visualizing viral loops as well as trend “waves”, this tool could be repurposed for very interesting things. 

“TweetCatcha seeks to uncover the organic nature of news as it travels through Twitter over time, by examining the movement of NY Times articles through Twitter.

The New York Times Newswire API is used to load news for the last 24 hours. The title and URL for the retrieved articles are used to search for tweets with the BackTweets API, a BackType service.”

fuckyeahinfo:

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