Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Newsmap (17 Jan 2005) Newsmap, that has won the Netvision 2004 award of Ars Electronica comes from the hard work of Marcos Weskamp and Dan Albritton whose objective is “to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news, on the contrary it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it” (see the explanation at the web). Newsmaps and Newsmap are two attractive and possibly efficient ways (I don't know of any usability studies on them) of news visualisation or, for that matter, document visualisation. Their underlying technologies are well differentiated: ThemeScape and Treemaps, but the final result is a quick and intuitive exploration of the document space. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=160&lang=2 Read 164 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Web content is a hidden asset  Readings in Information Visualization : Using Vision to Think  Buy from Amazon .com | .uk | .ca | .fr | .de |     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy