The Following directed graph shows the “top 5″ countries in the news (grouped by countries).
The query was done for all stored articles since January 2010 until now.
The edges are labelled with the percentage share of all articles for the origin country:
Q1 Country Interest
You can find the original picture here.
A short summary about the new vote feature.
Total Votes: 623
Votes by Topic:
| Topic | Votes |
|---|---|
| Science | 183 |
| Politic | 101 |
| Technology | 95 |
| Economy | 80 |
| Boulevard | 78 |
| Entertainment | 50 |
| Religion | 24 |
| Sport | 9 |
| Adult | 3 |
Pie Chart:
Because with all collected votes it will be possible to calculate better results for following matters:
You cast a vote by pressing the check-mark on the right-hand side of the news-entry.
You have ten votes in total.
Kungle.de will not store any personal information about your visit.
In Detail
Kungles web server like any other web server on the internet stores your IP in a log file. Independent from this logfile Kungles application server stores your selection and votes temporarily in memory. It is very difficult to connect these two information sources to generate an individualized user profile.
Finally the database counts the votes passed by the application server and logs theses events independent from the two other logs.
I’m not interested in individual user behavior.
Recent events showed that you should be very careful with your personal data:
http://www.kungle.de/Trend/entry/275800
http://www.kungle.de/Trend/entry/275766
http://www.kungle.de/Trend/entry/275526
Therefore I see the necessity to inform you about Kungles information processing.
Three issues with hundreds of similar news publications blocked the front page of Kungle.de. Each publication is interesting and informative by itself but together they are hiding other noteworthy information.
I concluded that it was about time to build a new subsystem to reduce the amount of identical information. You can still find all articles via the new “related link”.
The new Subsystem “IssueMerger“ now merges news with similar content. The older news entries are the more likely they are consolidated to one issue.
For this, I defined a function to calculate the proximity of two entries. (The Result is 1 if two news entries are identical and 0 if they completely different.)
It is necessary to build a complete “News Topology” (A Matrix with up to 1.5 million elements) which defines the proximities of all entry combinations.
The calculation for all topics requires up to 40 hours. The Algorithm itself was coded in 80 lines of scala.
You can find a calculated result here:
http://www.kungle.de/Trend/entry/220033
Update 1: In comparison this merge was hand made:
http://www.kungle.de/Trend/entry/225189
Hacker and Botnets had been very alive this week. Several night-shifts were necessary to keep kungle alive. However some drop outs were unavoidable.
Features:
The development of the translation feature has begun. The results are adequate so far.
Some fresh statistics from my database:
New: I’m now following political, cultural and news blogs.
If you want to participate create your own free blog (for example here wordpress.com or here www.blogger.com) and leave me a note or comment with your address of your website.
If you like, use your native language. I will add a new feature “automatic translation” in the next few days.
This and next week I’m heavily loaded with business & finance. Therefore the Kungle.de development is halted. This is really distressing for me because I have planned to add the feature “related images” to my front page.
Another short term goal is the improvement of Kungle’s ability to read additional news sources. For example Mongolia, parts of Africa and South America aren’t accessible at the moment.
Of course you can send me your comments and critics at any time to support@kungle.de or leave a comment here.
