Patent ID: 8456473

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a computer program to cause a computer to display, using a display device, a visible representation of a plurality of stocks in a stock market by a respective plurality of regions that are arranged based on a plurality of similarity values between a respective plurality of pairs of the stocks in the stock market, wherein each of the plurality of similarity values is based on a respective correlation between a respective first time series indicating, for each of a plurality of time intervals, an aggregate level of messaging in postings of messages for a respective first stock in its respective pair of the stocks and a respective second time series indicating, for each of the plurality of time intervals, an aggregate level of messaging in postings of messages for a respective second stock in its respective pair of the stocks, and wherein each of the plurality of regions is user-selectable to retrieve information from a message board associated with its respective one of the plurality of stocks.