The web's secret stories

Spotting the trends and patterns in a handful of anecdotes is not a difficult task. Cognitively, it is within our grasp as humans. However, raise the number of anecdotes beyond that and it becomes more of a mental stretch and you require the assistance of another "intelligence". It is for this reason that we utilise the SenseMaker suite of software when running projects that gather hundreds of stories. Now, imagine you could collect all the stories published on the web, and make sense of them in one visualization tool. This is exactly what Jonathan Harris does. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and switch your phone off for the next 20 minutes: