Update: Jan 20, 2012 My appologies for not updating this site lately. Flipboard has been keeping me a little busy. I'll try to work something out here soon, but in the meantime, you might want to say hello on Twitter, browse through a few photos here or peek into what it is like designing Flipboard.

the life and work of Marcos Weskamp

Marcos Weskamp is a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in playing with and visualizing lots of data. He is a self-taught technologist who constantly investigates the fields of Interaction Design and Information Visualization.

In March 2010, Marcos joined a ~~yet-to-be-named~~ startup in Palo Alto, where he designs, sketches, codes, serves coffee, washes dishes and leads the User Experience vision of a product that's going to be so awesome, it's going to blow your pants off.

Marcos is based in Palo Alto, California, where right now it is Sat May 18, 11:23am and the weather is Partly Cloudy.
contact: marcos@marumushi.com

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March 30, 2004

newsmap

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Newsmap's objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.