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Like Kevin Bacon’s co-stars, topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together, News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as a giant social network. Subjects—represented by the circles below—are connected to one another if they appear together in at least two stories, and the size of the dot is proportional to the total number of times the subject is mentioned.

A really good interactive birds-eye view of the news and how subjects are connected within it. It’s just a shame the news sources aren’t more international, but nice to see how the US commentates on the rest of the world at the same time.