Slate Magazine: Introducing News Dots
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 21:19
"News Dots scans all the articles from major publications—about 500 a day—and submits them to Calais … Each time two tags appear in the same story, this tool tallies one connection between them. … s this tool scans hundreds of stories, this network grows rapidly, and "communities" begin to form among the tags. … The news network that results is visualized using Slate's custom News Dots tool, which is built using an open-source Actionscript library called Flare."
