What is on the homepage?

1. TextMap Directory: gives links to the top 10 referenced entities for these categories: person, city, agency, company, university, drug, website and title. The linked entities are accessible with only one mouse click.

2. Search functionality: Locate the entity you are looking for with one search.

3. Entities: Index pages for all entities by letter for each category.

4. Sources: All sources by popularity and state.

5. Person of the Day:is picked among the top 1000 entities and is updated daily. It motivates the web user to visit TextMap more often.

6. What's New: d isplays the latest major change on the TextMap website and has a link to the What’s New page with all the previous updates.

What is on entity pages?

1. Juxtapositions: For the last 7 days, last 30 days and forever. Blue line indicates the number of coreferences and orange bar indicates the number of references

2. Coref./Ref. Bar: References track the frequency with which we observe a given entity through our corpus of news articles. Coreferences track the frequencies with which two given entities appear together in news articles. The length of orange bar is a function of the entity references while the length of the blue bar is a function of entity coreferences. A higher ratio of blue implies a stronger relationship between the two entities.
Thebar links to a page where the articles that reference both entities are displayed.

3. Popularity Time Series: The popularity time series graph tracks daily fluctuations in the reference frequency of popular entities over the last 30 days. Entities are partitioned by article type (news, sports, business, etc.) to highlight the nature of the references as a function of time.

4. Heatmap: shows the relative interest in an entity over a given period of time at every locale in the United States with reference to the news types: news, business, entertainment, sports and other. We have developed a geographic model of news influence which enables us to gauge the relative amount of exposure a given entity has received at every locale in the continental United States.

5. Last Generation Date: is the last time the page is generated.

What is on source pages?

1. Over/Under Populated Entities: lists the top 10 over/under populated entities for each source.

2. Content Type Distribution: is a pie chart showing the distribution of news types for all documents stored in the system.

3. Daily Content Type Distribution: is a bar chart showing the distribution of news types for each day of the week.

4. Content Type Time Series: is an area graph showing the distribution of news types over the last 30 days.