information aesthetics.
DiggGraphr [arpitonline.com] is a treemap visualization of the stories published on Digg, where each story is represented by a rectangle and the area occupied by each rectangle is proportional to the number of Diggs relative to the other stories in that channel.
DiggGraphr is inspired by marumushi/Marcos Weskamp's excellent NewsMap, but instead of news articles, it represents Digg stories. It is also available as a desktop application which can be downloaded here.
See also:
- Digg Analytics Dashboard
- Digg Visual Explorer
- Digg Scatterplots
- History Rings
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I did this app about 1-2 years ago, called Digg UFO. It's a news reader as well but more oriented towards showing all categories in chronological order. The count of digg is represented in the opacity of the boxes.
http://idletogether.com/ufo/digg/
digggraphr looks brilliant.
Actually, scratch what I said about brilliant... their design really needs some work :/
Thanks for that one! Sadly it does not make use of permalinks. NewsMap is great, especially for this feature.
I would love to see this kind of tree visualization for Twitter as well. It could be aggregated via the # selector.
If there is already one, please enlighten me. ;)
Isn't this just a derivative of Marcos Weskamp's 'Newsmap'?
(backend coding by Dan Albritton)
http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm