http://jonathanstray.com/we-have-no-maps-of-the-web Information, Culture, and Belief Sat, 18 May 2013 12:09:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jonathanstray.com/we-have-no-maps-of-the-web/comment-page-1#comment-4226 Are we stuck in filter bubbles? Here are five potential paths out » Nieman Journalism Lab | camerareviewer.co.uk Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:31:43 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=616#comment-4226 [...] We have no maps of the web. we have no visceral sense of its scale and richness. The great failing of search algorithms is that they only give you what you ask for, but I want a picture of the entire discoverable universe. this is the core idea behind the Overview Project, where my team and I are building a visualization system to help investigative journalists sort though huge quantities of unstructured text documents. [...] [...] We have no maps of the web. we have no visceral sense of its scale and richness. The great failing of search algorithms is that they only give you what you ask for, but I want a picture of the entire discoverable universe. this is the core idea behind the Overview Project, where my team and I are building a visualization system to help investigative journalists sort though huge quantities of unstructured text documents. [...]

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]]> http://jonathanstray.com/we-have-no-maps-of-the-web/comment-page-1#comment-2066 Jonathan Stray » A full-text visualization of the Iraq War Logs Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:39:05 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=616#comment-2066 [...] What can we learn from this visualization technique? Clusters are fairly reliable structures. Using color to plot one type of information against another can reveal patterns. And we believe that this visualization captures some important macro-scale aspects of the War Logs. This picture isn’t a story in the usual sense, but we find it insightful nonetheless, and maybe it tells us where to look further. A search tool only can only answer the questions we ask, but a visualization tool lets us make maps. [...] [...] What can we learn from this visualization technique? Clusters are fairly reliable structures. Using color to plot one type of information against another can reveal patterns. And we believe that this visualization captures some important macro-scale aspects of the War Logs. This picture isn’t a story in the usual sense, but we find it insightful nonetheless, and maybe it tells us where to look further. A search tool only can only answer the questions we ask, but a visualization tool lets us make maps. [...]

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