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Data visualization is a super fast way to plow through all of the news that floods into our computers through the Internet. Using the web sites shown below is easy and intuitive. Newsmap (http://newsmap.jp/) visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. Newsmap's objective is to demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. The size of each cell is determined by the amount of related articles that exist inside each news cluster.

Every hour, 10x10 (http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html) collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image. With no human editors and no regulation, 10x10 is open and free, raw and fresh, and consequently a unique way of following world events.

News Dots (http://slatest.slate.com/features/news_dots/default.htm) shows how topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together, News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as a giant social network.

To learn more about data visualization, examine A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods at http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html