What can we learn about a city by reading the newspaper?
This site continuously scans news articles posted on the Times of India website and generates visualizations of the most frequently occurring words in the articles. When a large enough number of articles has been garnered, these visualizations can give us a very rough idea of what is relevant or important to each city.
This page was last generated on Tue Nov 10 07:30:04 2009 CST,
based on a total of 4605 news articles.
The size of each word represents its relative frequency in the news; the larger and bolder the word, the more articles it appears in. Common words like "the" have been removed from consideration, and the logarithm of a word's frequency determines its size (for clarity). Suggestions and comments are welcome.
A different version of this page considers word pairs (bigrams) instead of single words. It can sometimes be more informative.
This page was last generated on Tue Nov 10 07:30:04 2009 CST,
based on a total of 4605 news articles.
Bangalore Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 21:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
area areas bangalore bbmp bjp case cases centre chief children city cm college commissioner committee congress court crore day days department development director doctors don dr elections family friday given good got government health help high home hospital hospitals house including india indian institute jd june kannada karnataka kumar lakh layout like lok medical members minister monday months mysore national need new night number office officials old order party patients people place pm police power public reddy road rs sabha saturday says set state students sunday taken thursday till time wards water way went women work world year years yeddyurappa
Chennai Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 19:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
action ago area arrested authorities based board body candidates case central chennai chief child children city college colleges com commissioner corporation court day days department director district dmk dr education election engineering evening general given got government health help high home hospital house including india indian justice kumar lakh like medical minister monday nadu nagar near new night number office officer official officials old parents party people police private project public road rs saturday says school seats secretary security senior set soon sources sri state station student students sunday taken tamil team time university used water went work year years
Delhi Last updated Sep 3 2009 at 23:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
accused admission alleged allegedly area areas arrested assembly bank bjp candidate capital car case cases chief children city claimed class college colleges congress court day days degrees delhi department du evening family games given good got government help high home hospital house incident including india june kumar lakh later like mcd monday money months nagar near new night north number officer official officials old party people place pm police power registered road rs school senior singh sources south state station student students taken temperature thursday time times traffic university used victim vihar vote votes water way west work year years
Goa Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 01:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
accused act action area areas arrested authorities beach bjp board body case cases ccp centre chief children city committee complaint congress council court day days department development director fernandes forest friday garbage given goa government gram health held high home house india informed issue kamat lakh land left like mahanand margao meeting members minister monsoon naik near new north officer officials old panaji panchayat party people place plan police ponda power project public railway report road rs sabha says school schools site sources south state station students taken till time toi tuesday used village villagers waste water work year years
Kolkata Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 23:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
aila area areas banerjee bengal bhattacharjee case centre chief city college committee congress court cpm cyclone day days department district don election evening family friday ghosh got government help high home hospital hours house kolkata land leader leaders left like local mamata maoists meeting members minister monday morning mukherjee nandigram new night north officer official officials old panchayat parganas party people police political polls power relief road rs sabha saturday school secretary set situation south started state students sunday sunderbans supporters taken team thursday time trees trinamool tuesday used village villagers violence water way wednesday went west work year years
Lucknow Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 23:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
act action area authorities bjp board body bsp candidate candidates car case cases centre chief circle city college congress court day days department district election elections examination fact family general girl given got government health held high house identified incident information institute kumar lakh later left like lodged lok lucknow man mayawati medical meeting members minister monday new number office officer official officials old order party people place police power pradesh reported road rs sabha school seats secretary senior singh situation sources sp state station students sunday taken team till time university uttar vehicles victim village went work year years
Mumbai Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 23:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
accused air airport area arrested bjp bmc board bombay building case cases chavan chief children city civic college commissioner committee congress court crime crore day days department development director education family film friday given got government help high home hospital house incident including india indian june lakh later life like local maharashtra members minister mns monday months mumbai ncp new night number officer official officials old order party patil pawar people police project public report road rs says school security sena senior set singh state station students taken time toi traffic tuesday used votes water way wife work year years
Trivandrum Last updated Jun 19 2009 at 17:00 GMT, visualizing news from May 3 2009.
achuthanandan action advani alleged area assembly baby balakrishnan based bjp candidate case cbi chandy chief college congress constituency court cpm crore day days decision district election elections examination films financial firm gandhi general given government governor held high home india indian issue kerala kumar lakh lavalin ldf leader leaders leadership led left like lok matter media meet meeting member minister monsoon national new office officials old party people police political poll polls post power prosecute protest rally reporters rs sabha sanction secretary section singh snc sources south state sunday taken tharoor time today udf varun vijayan workers year years yesterday
Don't forget to check out the bigram version, which uses pairs of adjacent words instead of solitary words.
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Visual News by Mayank Lahiri is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at compbio.cs.uic.edu.
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