Times Wire

This visualization was intended to provide the feeling of flipping newspaper, to make people more comfortable with screen. I located section data on the top of the paper so that user can find favorite section first, then user can grasp the headline. I tried to design this visualization can be used with touch screen display, in home information system.
Made with Flash AS3.0, Papervision 3D

http://www.cre8ive.kr/DataViz/TimesWire.html

This visualization utilizes colors to categorize the sections, and articles are stacked up chronologically. I also tried to use saturation to visualize the time of the article however, it makes somewhat ambiguous color scheme for section categorization.

Times wire viz

news clock
the idea for the first non-working visualization is making something similar to clock movement with the data because times wire is about real-time news of past 24 hrs. Here’s how this should work. When new headlines feeds in, the old headlines rotate just like clock hand( minute) moves. so older headlines gets smaller and disappear as time passes, and the screen keeps updates with newer feeds.

words into pixels
these are my initial sketch for the working version. it is based on the same data set as the first viz, but i wanted to create something more abstract. squares = color coded sections , and as times passes, viewers can get overall idea of what section had the most headlines for that day.

working version
screen grab of working version. i didn’t make squares yet, it is just getting 15 headlines from nyt. for some reason, this one is not working in web browser, but you can download the file from the link below.

click here to download the file.

Times wire – Bylines v creation date

Here’s the first project for the NY Times collab.  Ramsey and I worked on this one.  We managed to find a relationship between bylines and creation date of articles posted by those authors within a 24 hr cycle.  We were trying to explore how many times an author posts an article within a 24 hr timeframe.  The axis is midnight, and the outer circle is 12 hrs.  The stories we were trying to tell revolve who is producing the most articles, and when the writers are active throughout the day.  The more articles posted by an author, the more dense that quadrant gets with their work.

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