Archive for February, 2008
Geographic Data Maps Mashup
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Geographic Data Maps MashupAssigned: 2/19/2008 Due: 2/29/2008 6:00pmThe purpose of this assignment is to create a map mashup / visualization with a newsworthy dataset of your choosing. You’ll find or create some dataset which you think would have some news value and then put it on a map. To do this you’ll need to […]
Reuters’ Open Calais
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Reuters release an new API called Calais based on a semantic entity extraction engine they acquired from Clear Forest last year. It can extract Entities, Organizations, Companies, Events, and relationships between these things. Read Write Web posted a good summary of the API’s capabilities here.
Thinking about how to integrate the capabilities of this API into […]
Info Viz Links From Class
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Here is a list of some of the Visualization examples shown in class today:
TextMap
Election Map
Cartograms
NewsSniffer
SOTU
Market Map
Digg Stack
TenByTen
News Map
Political Content Analysis
Thursday, February 7th, 2008This site, PoliticalTrends, does some interesting content analysis of online political content, mostly from blogs and has some nifty visuals to go along with it. You can see the break down of sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) in the blogosphere with respect to each candidate.