elruso.com Blog » Visualization http://elruso.com/blog Evgueni Pervago writing about Web 2.0 and technology in general Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 NewsMap: Treemapping for Google News http://elruso.com/blog/2006/07/12/newsmap-treemapping-for-google-news/ http://elruso.com/blog/2006/07/12/newsmap-treemapping-for-google-news/#comments Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:54:10 +0000 Evgueni Pervago http://elruso.com/blog/2006/07/12/newsmap-treemapping-for-google-news/ Signal vs. Noise points to an interesting application of treemapping: NewsMap. It displays news stories, grouped by section, as rectangles whose size is proportional to significance of the story:

NewsMap 2

A similar concept has been employed (much earlier) in SmartMoney’s Map of the Market:

SmartMoney Market map

Both of those are good tools to deal with information clutter, although I think the Map of the Market is more useful in real life due to several levels of depth (you can drill down to individual sectors).

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