Periscopic Now

We’ve been attending all of the Portland Data Visualization Group meetings, and the next one looks like it will be just as good as past events.  It’s going to be on Wednesday, October 19th from 6:30 – 8:30 at Collective Agency. Many more details here.

Great lineup of speakers, including Nate Bergey (where can we buy an ISS-Notify?), Kevin Lynagh, Charlie Loyd, Aaron Parecki, and Periscopic co-founder, Dino Citraro.

Special thanks to Second Story for sponsoring the event!

Looking forward to talking shop with like-minded  data-heads.

Last week I had an opportunity to attend Tech@State, a relatively unknown event outside the civic realm, hosted by the State Department. The keynote was given by Edward Tufte and his principles and ideas were parroted excitedly by attendees throughout the day. This would normally be fine, however, without a firm background in data literacy, these dictums can be misconstrued.

The sparkline concept was eagerly accepted within the crowd, but I heard people wanting to apply this visual technique to things that aren’t a series or temporal in nature. There were also people who wanted .... read on ›

I was fortunate enough to attend the Strata Summit in NYC last week. Loaded with insightful presentations by a number of experts and leaders in the world of data, I found myself captivated. This portion of the conference was all plenary sessions which meant you didn’t have to choose a track (and later regret choosing the wrong one). I greatly appreciated sitting in one room and experiencing the curated stream of speakers.

There were many great sessions, but I will limit this post to a few.

Marc Goodman of Future Crimes gave us a mad .... 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’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 ›

Periscopic’s founder, Kim Rees will be one of the presenters at AIGA’s Shift 5 event on Wednesday Novemebr 18th, starting at 7:00 PM at the Ecotrust building here in Portland.

Kim will be speaking about conservation and sustainability in the interactive world, and here’s a bit more from the AIGA web site:

Join AIGA Portland on Thursday, November 18th for SHIFT 5 — an event to inform, inspire and engage peers, clients and students about sustainable design thinking and practices. Ten presenters will briefly share their observations, ideas and even challenges in shaping the future of visual communications.

Read the .... read on ›

We’ll be presenting a preview of our latest data visualization project “Vote Smart” at the fourth Portland Data Visualization Group meeting on Wednesday July 28th, at Webtrends.

Time permitting, we’ll also be showing design comps for a different data visualization project that we’re currently developing for Polar Bear International.

Learn more about the event