I’m addicted to treemaps! After implementing my treemap as an addition to reverbiage, I had the crazy notion to actually use the treemap as a primary navigation element. So, I decided to launch a new site, using Slashdot stories, with the treemap allowing for relational browsing of stories. It’s called RoomForMilk. Click through the treemap and watch the map change. Browsing older/newer shows the evolution of a topic.
Update: I’ve released the source code here.
Update: Ooh, I made The Guardian!
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I thought I’d drop a plug for my buds in the awesome band Fragment37 since they let me do the artwork for their first album, Kitchen Sink. It’s finally out, and it’s awesome! Can you say awesome? I did, three times. Anyway, give a listen to some of the tracks on their site, and then go over to CDBaby and plunk down the green for a little bit of red.
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I’ve been working on my own treemap on reverbiage. It shows the popularity of NPR stories with particular keywords, shaded by recency. Green tiles use lame logic to determine proper names. The original idea is not mine, but I got the inspiration from here. How could I look at something like that and not try it myself?? It, like the rest of the site, is a work in progress.
The algorithm itself is very very simple. I’ll post some code soon, but here’s the gist of it:
- Take a list (array) of items as keys with their popularity as the value for each.
I just added interactive timelines to my NPR news aggregator site. Now, when you browse to a tag page, you can see a timeline of stories related to that subject. It’s neat to see how an event’s coverage evolves over time. It’s a little rough, but pretty cool to see.
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I’m very interested in using Flash for data visualization, so I decided to start playing around with ways to organize and visualize news feeds. I made a little playground site called reverbiage where I created a flash feed reader that uses a world map to show NPR news feed aggregations. The site itself uses freetag combined with a keyword extractor to autotag stories as they come in. The map is still a little wonky at times, and the site itself is at an embryonic stage, but I thought you may want to take a look. I’d like to use this site as a staging ground for all kinds of feed visualization.
