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News Dots

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By Barry Ritholtz - February 18th, 2010, 2:30PM

Most news is inter-connected by various degrees of separation. People, places, story lines — very often overlap. News Dots visualizes how recent topics in the news fit together, like a giant social network.

Subjects—represented by the circles below—are connected to one another if they appear together in at least two stories, and the size of the dot is proportional to the total number of times the subject is mentioned.

To use this interactive tool, just click on a circle to see which stories mention that topic and which other topics it connects to in the network.

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click for interactive program

via Slate

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Category: Digital Media, Financial Press, Web/Tech.

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4 Responses to “News Dots”

  1. globaleyes Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    NEWS DOTS are a visual example of the synchronicity in daily news events. It is equally impressive on a micro or personal level.

    I remain amazed. Don’t let the rapture pass you by.

  2. Barry Ritholtz Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    Very cool stuff indeed!

  3. philipat Says:
    February 18th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Now what?

  4. Mark E Hoffer Says:
    February 19th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=Taxonomies

54 queries. 0.183 seconds.