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Data Visualization - Google News Heat Map

January 30, 2009 by Walt Ritscher

Here's another interesting data visualization idea. Take the Google news feed and generate a heat map. Click on an item in the heat map to read the news story. The application, named Newsmap, sports a number of filters, color codes the items by category (Technology is green) and uses color to signify the age of the article (darker colors = older links). Written in Flash.

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