Periscopic Now

The VAST Challenge is a data visualization contest that occurs every year as part of the IEEE VisWeek Conference. This year’s challenge dealt with three datasets: illegal arms trading, hospitalization records, and gene mutation. We chose to address hospitalization records and visualizing the spread of a pandemic.

Not surprisingly, the bulk of the work was cleaning up and organizing the data. Records from disparate entities tend to have little resemblance to one another. Unfortunately, this means that analysis of data across these entities is time consuming, if feasible at all.

We looked at ways to enable early detection of epidemics and .... read on ›

Yesterday, we launched the fourth in a series of holiday infographics for Adaptu.

This infographic conveys the percentage of Americans that received food assistance in 2009, as well as how powerful monetary donations are. You can see how varied amounts ($1, $25, $50, and $100) can make a significant difference to those in need.

Check out the infographic at Adaptu’s site.

The third infographic we developed for Adaptu.com has just been launched.

This week’s topic focuses on holiday lighting and the hidden cost of energy use when powering incandescent bulbs instead of LED bulbs.

You can check out the whole thing here at Adaptu’s site.

We partnered with Adaptu.com, a personal finance website and community, to create a set of 5 holiday infographics. Take a look at the first 3:

1. Throwing a Holiday Dinner Party
2. Holiday Travel
3. Holiday Lighting
4. to be announced
5. to be announced

Here’s a look at the second in a set of five infographics we designed for Adaptu.com.

This week’s piece takes a look at ways to save money by avoiding the most popular travel itineraries, and shows that the money saved could almost pay your electric bill for a whole month.

Check out the whole post on the Adaptu site.