News Topics as Social Network | FlowingData
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Slate use Open Calais (Thomson Reuters) to extract tags from stories and anaylse the relationships between news topics. The infographic uses size of circle to indicate importance and distance between circles as strength of relationship. Conceivably this could be useful for newsrooms determining whether to treat stories as self-contained single topic entities or to go for 'wraps' pulling together new developments in closely related topics. Better still, if it were applied to social media content it might give them early warning of emerging topics or relationships.

