Periscopic Now

We’re excited to say that our latest visualization is also being featured on FlowingData.com. Take a look:

Yahoo is not what it used to be, but many parts of it are still alive and well. In a follow-up to their email interactive, Yahoo, along with visualization firm Periscopic, explores the popularity of articles that appear on the Yahoo homepage. It’s a visualization that shows activity within the Content Optimization and Relevance Engine (C.O.R.E. for short).

The focus is on the center, which has the same layout as that of the stories on the Yahoo homepage. Story on top, and .... read on ›

Our latest data visualization is featured on Mashable.com. Here’s an excerpt:

Yahoo has launched a new webpage that visualizes what’s happening on the web in near real time — and it’s totally beautiful.

The Content Optimization Relevance Engine (C.O.R.E.) HTML5 site hopes to show users the “behind the scenes” process Yahoo uses to match readers with content on their personalized homepage, using technology developed in a Yahoo research lab a few years ago. While Yahoo’s homepage used to be arranged by editors, it now uses an algorithm to match individual user preferences.

“We can provide users with insights through the .... read on ›

The White House billed the 2012 State of the Union address as the “most interactive State of the Union ever”, and part of their efforts was an “enhanced broadcast” that included a large amount of charts, graphs and images.

In case you missed the enhanced broadcast, we’ve included screencaps of the images below.

Overall, it was really nice to see the White House using technology to help better explain the often confusing nuances of politics. They produced an enhanced broadcast last year, but this year’s version felt much more considered and visually appealing.

Of course we would have liked to see more .... read on ›

Occasionally people will ask us about our process, and today was one of those days.

So here it is, in all of its cryptic beauty.

It’s simple, really.

(And that’s drawn on our conference table, which is sometimes also part of the process.)

We recently developed the software for two kiosks being used at the swankily newly renovated Museum of Moving Image in New York City. The first one teaches visitors about stop-motion animation and lets you create a short movie. The visitor uses visual assets provided at the stations, moving the elements slightly then capturing an individual frame. The resulting film can be played back and adjusted. The final film can then be emailed or uploaded directly to YouTube.

Our second kiosk, Flipbook Station, allows you to capture frames of video an turn them into a physical flipbook, emulating the .... read on ›

As you know, we are fans (as well as purveyors) of data visualization. What you might not know is that we are also fans of politics, and our latest data visualization Politilines is a nice blending of the two.

After watching a few of the Republican Primary debates we were compelled to try to make sense of what everyone was actually saying.  To do this, we decided to take a look at the words that were most often spoken during the debate, and then map to them to both the major issues, as well as the candidates from which they .... read on ›

We’re very excited that our latest data visualization is featured on flowingdata.com.  Here’s an excerpt:

Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn’t really know it because there aren’t public-facing streams like that of Twitter. Outside your own inbox, how much email is there exactly? Yahoo, in collaboration with information visualization firm Periscopic, shows you how much email they process in real-time with this interactive feature.

The initial view is a world map, and scaled bubbles represent how many emails were currently sent. Hover over continents for user geographic distribution and gigabytes sent.

There’s also .... read on ›

We’re thrilled that our latest visualization is featured on Flowingdata.com. Here’s an excerpt from the post:

With Breast Cancer Awareness Month coming up in October, data visualization firm Periscopic teamed up with GE to explore the conversations about breast cancer on Twitter. Yes, believe it or not, people actually talk about other things besides Justin Bieber with the service.

The interactive starts with an oval shape that resembles a solar system (above). It’s the most recent 1,500 tweets that use “breast cancer” in the text. Each blue circle is a tweet, and they are sized by number of .... read on ›

We’re very excited that our latest data visualization is featured on infosthetics.com. Here’s an excerpt of the post:

“Who’s talking about breast cancer?” by “socially conscious information visualization firm”Periscopic reveals the currently ongoing discussions on the topic of breast cancer on Twitter.

First, about 1,500 relevant tweets captured within the last 7 hours are collected in a single view that resembles a slowly gravitating space galaxy. Each tweet appears as a unique particle, of which the size depends on how many times it has been retweeted. This highly dense but intuitive view can then be interactively explored and filtered by 3 different .... 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 ›