Context is built into a story in The Washington Post’s experimental “Knowledge Map” » Nieman Journalism Lab

An encouraging hypertext news prototype; explore here

"For now, Knowledge Map is still a small-scale test, appearing only on this one story. But the Post eventually hopes to apply data mining to personalize the reading experience further for its readers.

“This iteration sets us up to use data mining techniques to identify and surface contextual content for our readers,” the Post’s engineering director for data science Sam Han said in its announcement about Knowledge Map today. “Our ultimate goal is to mine big data to surface highly personalized and contextual data for both journalistic and native content.”"

Context is built into a story in The Washington Post’s experimental “Knowledge Map” » Nieman Journalism Lab