The discovery of the TextMap

I would assume that TextMap is pretty popular in some media circles. I've just been turned onto it recently.

This is something very interesting. Instead of trying to explain it myself, this is TextMap's own definition (and a much more understandable one than the one I would've tried to throw out) of what they do:

TextMap "tracks references to people, places, and things appearing in news text, so as to identify meaningful relationships between them. TextMap monitors the state of the world by analyzing both the temporal and spatial distribution of these entities. We currently analyze over 1000 domestic and international news sources every day. TextMap uses natural language processing techniques to identify entity references and a variety of statistical techniques to analyze the juxtapositions between them."

With that in mind, just for fun, check out the textmaps for:
Rick Pitino
Billy Gillispie
Kelvin Sampson
Steve Kragthorpe
Rich Brooks
Terry Hoeppner

and hell, while we're at it, let's throw out a real interesting one--Tubby Smith.

Enjoy.