IBM Watson News Explorer Web Application
Company: IBM
Provided: interaction design, user interface design, data visualization, research, development
Date: 2015 - 2016
IBM Watson News Explorer combined Alchemy News API and d3.js library to automatically construct a news information network and presents large volumes of news results via interlinked data visualizations. News Explorer was created by the Watson Cognitive Visualization Lab (now Visual AI Lab), of which I was a part. I completed the user interface design and development of the application, in addition to co-developing the data visualizations with Steve Ross, who also developed the back-end. Megan Monroe was also a collaborator. Our team was managed by Mauro Martino.
News Explorer is no longer online, but had over 2 million unique queries over the years, received a prestigious 'Kantar Information is Beautiful Award,' and was recently featured in the book ‘Atlas of Macroscopes: Interactive Data Visualizations” from MIT Press.
