NewsTraces 1.0 explores BBC News headlines from the Americas since 2000. Entering a search displays all the matching news stories chronologically.
This is the first project that uses a new dataset of BBC News archive metadata. The source code and data for the project are available, so do let us know if you make anything new with them, and leave comments here.
Guardian NewsTraces explores the Guardian since 2000 and uses the Guardian Open Platform.
I’m liking this project very much gavin. I have downloaded your data and code and am now playing!
Are more to come? I think I change some of the colours
Hi Francesca, glad you like the project, be really good to see anything you build with it.
yes, we’ll be doing further visualisations with this, and also hope to release some more data.
Great news, thankyou I will look forward to this.
francesca
Hey Guys, nice project for sure.
I imagine it would be easy to plug into other news source too. Thanks for the code.
Baily and Corby the same yes? I see your work for many years in a different modality that of art, so nice to see some different forms of work. I have used this project for some teaching initiatives at Humboldt so thank you very much.
Neily, many thanks for your feedback. For teaching it might be worth checking out the Guardian version of the project, it offers a few more features.
Really nice work people, I’ve been enjoying playing with this and will take a look at the code later
Nice development from the other projects. Really like how you can visualise the occurance of topics through time, and layer them up also. Looking forward to seeing some more thanks.
Coops.
Looks good with the other pieces people. Can use for our assignments at RMIT so thanks very much.
Hiya, can you clarify the differences between the guardian version and this. What data types are you using. thanks.
Hi Gerry, the Guardian version uses calls to the Guardian Open Platform API, and the BBC Americas version uses an archive file of RSS items. Hope this helps?
Thank you very much for your visualisations, great to have access to the code very generrous so we’ve been using some of this stuff in lessons.
Been playing with this and the guardian one, great fun to see the patterns and frequency of stories. Have you tried submitting these to visual complexity?
Dear Gavin with the Gaurdian version is ok to use the data for our projects using the software download? Thanks in advance – Oli
Hi Oli, re Guardian data its best to check with the Guardian Open Platform T&Cs:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/terms-and-conditions
Great development from the other projects, so we’ve done network diagrams and bar charts be great to see some other forms of viz. The code resources is an outstanding idea, I can’t think of any other site that does this kind of thing.
Thank you Gavin I have now seen the new project most interesting.
regards
Neily
Like others above thanks for these projects, it’s interesting to see the eygyptian news using these graphs. Given me all sorts of ideas for my own projects which I will link to when done.