Periscopic Now

We’ve partnered with Healthymagination to develop a tool that aggregates Tweets about a long-standing public health issue: breast cancer.

Twitter is a remarkable tool for enhancing social consciousness. However, Tweets are often limited to Tweeters’ network, just a sliver of the social media community. Through the aggregation of tweets, this project expands the scope of public awareness exponentially.

We’ve made it possible for visitors to insert themselves in an international conversation. Analyzing top words focuses the visitor’s attention on the specific topics that are dominating the discussion. Visitors can also explore the most commonly Tweeted news stories and track the Tweeters .... read on ›

We are currently looking for a Jr. Front-end Developer to join our happy team. 2+ years experience with both Flash (ActionScript 3) and HTML5 is preferred. A formal computer science education is ideal, but a strong penchant for efficient and elegant OO code is also okay.

The perfect candidate will be meticulous, detail oriented, and must possess creative and adaptive thinking skills. XML, PHP, MySQL, math/physics, creative background, or any other language or special talent score big bonus points. A passion for dealing with data, making sense of large amounts of disparate information, or statistical analysis would be lovely. Some .... read on ›

Our co-founder Kim Rees has been invited to speak at the Wolfram Data Summit in Washington DC on the topic of data visualization.

Here’s a summary of what she’ll present:

The world is more than what is visible around us. Data visualization is a practice that can generate insight and hasten understanding. By working through two case studies, I will show how data visualization can transform the invisible into rich intelligence.

First, Yahoo!’s email traffic that is sent and received will be illuminated with a small interactive visualization. I will also demonstrate a forthcoming social media visualization for GE Healthymagination, which looks .... read on ›

We’ve opened a new store to sell data-related apparel and gear!

As part of our efforts to do good with data, we’ve created several t-shirt designs that will help people show off their love for data.

In addition to that, we’ve decided to donate all of our profits from these products to the American Cancer Society, so not only will you look good in these data threads, you’ll feel good, too.

Several designs are part of the first rollout, with more to come.  If you have specific requests for type of designs, colors, or kinds of products, please .... read on ›

The deadline for WikiViz 2011 – a competition organized by WikiSym and the Wikimedia Foundation to visualize WIkipedia’s impact with open data – has been extended!

The WikiSym committee is glad to announce that the deadline has been extended to August 28 2011.

The 3 finalists will have travel costs covered for the awarding ceremony at WikiSym 2011 in Mountain View, CA (3-5 October 2011) and their work showcased at the conference, featured in our partners’ dataviz outlets (FlowingData, Information Aesthetics, Periscopic, Visualizing.org ) and published by El Mundo – the largest digital newspaper by readership in Spanish.

More here:

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/wikiviz:presentation

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Talk to Me, a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, features a variety of designs “that enhance communicative possibilities and embody a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological breakthroughs up or down to a comfortable, understandable human scale.”

We’re so very honored to be included in this exhibit, which runs from July 24 – November 7, 2011.

Check out the other works, and read more about the exhibit on the MoMa web site.

We’re so honored to have been selected as a knowledge partner for the WikiMedia Foundation’s WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of Wikipedia. Kim Rees, our founding partner, will be among the world-class experts that will jury the symposium’s awards.

Here’s an excerpt from the Wikimedia blog:

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Wikipedia, and its impressive growth in content, quality, diversity, and readership, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym) and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) are jointly launching WikiViz 2011 – a call for data/information visualization experts, computational journalists, data artists and data scientists to create the most .... read on ›

It was nice to hear that our work on Chipotle.com has helped generate accolades and praise at this year’s Webby Awards. Hats off to Sequence who was the lead agency on this project. (We did the Flash work throughout the site.)

Here’s what the Webby Awards site tells us to do next:

Congratulations! Your organization has been selected as a Winner for The 15th Annual Webby Awards. Out of nearly 10,000 entries that were submitted, there are only a handful of Winners, and your work is among them. Whether selected as a Winner by The Academy or chosen by the .... read on ›

We recieved this today in an email from the WebVisions conference:

We have selected your submission as a finalist for the Webvisionary Awards. If the robot overlords were here, they would grant you permission to feel pride. Soon, all finalists’ submissions will be listed on the Websionary Awards site at http://webvisionaryawards.com.

Come to the Fez Ballroom (316 SW 11th Ave, Portland) on May 26th at 7:00pm to stare down the other finalists as the awards are announced. If you win and can’t make it to the show, your robot trophy will be held for you in the robots’ version .... read on ›

Our latest infographic for Adaptu.com takes a look at whether or not gold is a good investment.

Gold prices stay fixed throughout most of the 19th century until 1971 when President Nixon decided to do away with the gold standard, and after that, prices just grew and grew.

Today gold is more expensive than at any other time in history. (At least the history of the stock market.)

But is it a good investment?

Well it turns out that it depends on how you invest in it. There are four different ways you can catch gold fever, and you can check out read on ›