Infographic of the Day: Visualizing News Stories, as a Huge Social Network

Slates News Dots features offers a new way of connecting the threads between the day's news.

Intuitively, we all know that big news topics relate to other big news topics--when you read about Google, you're likely also reading about Microsoft.

This new tool from Slate makes those connections a bit more concrete. News Dots automatically scans all of the articles from major publications, and then tags them using Calais, an automated tagging engine created by Thompson Reuters. When two stories...