Visualization: The Medium - Data Points: Visualization That Means Something - page 84

FIGURE 2-31 I Want You To Want Me (2008) by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, http://www.iwantyoutowantme.org/
However, Weskamp's newsmap shows headlines sized by popularity, based on
a number of related articles. Each rectangle represents a clickable story and
is colored by topic, such as world, national, or business. So you get a sense of
what's going on in the world at a glance, and there are a variety of options (such
as country of interest and time frame) and you can include and exclude topics.
Geographic maps are heavily used as a search tool. Their main use on the web
was to look up directions from point A to point B, but as developers add layers
of information and integrate deeper functionality, complete applications are
developed to provide information and context of areas.