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We’re very happy to say that the new bot Beverages site botlandish.com was selected as Communication Arts’ Site of the Day!

This from their site:

bot beverages This boutique beverage company takes a unique approach to reaching its audience by allowing it to alter the site via Twitter hashtags that cause animations and soundtracks to change in real-time.

See the post on CommArts.com

We’re honored to have our latest visualization, Congress Speaks be spotlighted on the New York Times First Look site:

Congress Speaks: Animating APIs

Our series of posts about external uses of Times APIs continues. Today we’re highlighting the Congress Speaks application, which uses the Times Congress API.

Actions speak louder than words — or so goes the adage. But in the U.S. Congress, words often are actions. From catchy acronyms that help a bill gather steam to maddening filibusters that stop legislation in its tracks, the words spoken .... read on ›

We’re very happy to say that our visualization Congress Speaks was selected as Communication Arts’ Site of the Day!

This from their site:

Congress Speaks Developed in Flash and using public-domain data, this site is an exploration of the words, voting records and tenure of legislators in the 110th U.S. Congress who are shown as animated talking animals.

Thanks to Information Aesthetics for spotlighting Congress Speaks:

Congress Speaks [congressspeaks.com] is a light-hearted exploration of the more than 14,548,598 words spoken in the 110th United States Congress. It explores who has being doing all this talking, and more importantly, what they have been saying. The website allows the comparison of individual legislators or states, or even states with legislators. The statistics include the exact number of words spoken, a tag cloud of the most common words used, the distribution of the party affiliations of the words spoken, and their relative weight against .... read on ›

Thanks to Flowing Data for spotlighting Congress Speaks:

Compare What Your Senators and Reps are Talking About With Congress Speaks

There’s a lot of talking in congressional meetings, but what are your state senators and representatives talking about? Design group Periscopic explores what congress men and women said from 2007 to 2008 in this tongue-in-cheek comparison tool with talking heads. The best part about the tool is that behind the humor is actually something useful.

Compare word distributions of senators, of states, of a senator to a state, or representatives, so on and so forth. We get breakdowns by gender, number of .... read on ›

weeGiggle, the exploratory iPhone app we designed and developed for toddlers, has just launched in the iTunes store.

Bright colors, funny animals, silly sounds and animations come together in a fun exploratory land designed to help expand the imagination of the developing child.

Whether a pleasant distraction during a diaper change, or a fun activity to share with the parent, weeGiggle is an excellent option to keep in your back pocket for those moments when the wee one can use a little giggle.

Features:
•    Designed specifically for toddlers
•    Intentionally large hit areas on characters means less coordination is needed
•   .... read on ›

We’re so excited to have been selected to be included in CommArts’ Interactive Annual 15!

Here’s an excerpt from the online version:

“A simple, powerful, cleanly designed tool for tracking salmon populations. Easy to search, filter and zoom in on specific locations.” —Stacey Mulcahy

“Despite immense and complex data, users can easily navigate and find the information that is most useful to them; it delivers a massive amount of information in an extraordinary visual fashion.” —Edward J. Heinz Jr.

Overview: Developed as a way to view the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s assessment of .... read on ›

Thanks to Information Aesthetics for spotlighting our State of the Salmon visualization:

State of the Pacific Salmon: Tracking the Biodiversity of the Sockeye Salmon

Somehow, some of the people and organizations concerned with monitoring and protecting the salmon in the North Pacific region also seem to have a very good taste for online data visualization.

The original project “State of the Salmon” was noted on infosthetics a while ago, as a post from April 2007 highlighted the online application Visual MSC (with MSC short for Marine Stewardship Council Assessment).

Recently, another sophisticated and nicely designed State of .... read on ›