Newsbeat

This module integrates Drupal with Newsbeat a realtime statistic service for especially suited for news sites.

Section and author variables

The module uses taxonomy to set _sf_async_config.sections variable, and it uses node author for _sf_async_config.authors

Both of these variables can be altered using hook_newsbeat_authors_alter and hook_newsbeat_sections_alter

More info

See more on: http://chartbeat.com/newsbeat/

Also see the chartbeat module: http://drupal.org/project/chartbeat