new york times article explorer
This interactive project creates an engaging way to explore Times articles from 1981 to the present.
It was completed at Carnegie Mellon University for the class Intro to Computing for Designers.
Article search results are visualized.
This app uses the New York Times Article Search API. Once the user enters in a search term, a white circle will be drawn representing the collection of articles containing the entered search term. The size of the circle is proportional to the number of articles found. The user can click on the circle to fetch a random article from that collection. The +/- buttons can be used to zoom in and out.
Clicking on circles fetches a random article. The user can read the full article on the New York Times website.
In addition, the app uses an interesting feature of the Article Search API called "facets". Each article has been tagged with certain terms, or facets, allowing us to see topics, people, and places that are relevant to the article.
The coloured circles represent various facets of the searched articles.
When an article search is made, the most common facets of the article are displayed in the corners of the window. Users can refine their search by clicking these colored circles and narrow the results to articles that only contain the selected facets. Again, the user can click on any of the white circles to fetch a random article from that collection.