- Creating Global Webs
2. Visual Communication
- Content + Graphics = Visual Data
Newsmap's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.
Currently, the internet presents a highly disorganized collage of information. Many of us are working in an information-soaked world. There is too much of everything. We are subject everywhere to a sensory overload of images, bombarded with information; in magazines and advertisements, on TV, radio, in the cityscape. The internet is a wonderful communication tool, but day after day we find ourselves constantly dealing with information overload. Today, the internet presents a new challenge, the wide and unregulated distribution of information requires new visual paradigms to organize, simplify and analyze large amounts of data. New user interface challenges are arising to deal with all that overwhelming quantity of information.
3. Paradigm Changing: Conveyance of Messages to Readers
- Leaving search method of perusing text to perusing gathered visuals
4. New Marketing Tool
- Heat Signatures of User Viewing Patterns
- "We Feel Fine" Site:
We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
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A Heatmap is an easy way to understand what users do on your site. It’s a visual representation showing you where users click and what they do.
5. New Way of Presenting Statistical Data
- Taking large amounts of information and compressing it into
smaller more visual arena
- Company promises that the days of mining through pages and
pages of tiny thumbnails in an effort to find the item you are
looking for are over.
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