NYTimes TimesWire Visualization

http://parsons.justinblinder.com/datavis09/timeswire/justinblinder_timeswire.html

My visualization initially focused on the “terms” and “catagory tags” associated with each article.  After realizing that most of these terms were very specific, I instead chose to use the section that each article was a part of. I created circles for the articles and made variables for their size, color, and position, that corresponded to the section frequency and the title.  I hoping to give a basic idea of the section frequency within a certain period of time, however partially randomized positioning is still a bit chaotic.

My original design plan was to have a radial positioning for each section that slowly emanated  from the center. I used this process in my second visualization mockup, and showed the frequency of articles for each section within the last 24 hours.