Periscopic Now

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 ›

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 ›

Many thanks to Andrew at Infosthetics.com for posting about our latest data visualization. Here’s an excerpt from his post:

The Yahoo! Mail Visualization , designed by Periscopic, aims to show of the network processing power required to run a vast emailing service by revealing the streams of keywords that are sent around the globe in real-time.

The geo-located circles on the world map represent the activity and volume of processed emails, totaling to about 5.6 billion emails a day. Current and predicted email traffic is show at the bottom of the screen. A streamgraph shows the top 10 keywords .... 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’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 really enjoy working with Chipotle Mexican Grill. Their commitment to using the best ingredients raised with respect for the animals, the environment, (and the farmers), is really inspiring. It’s hard to believe, but this is already the 18th year they’ve been serving Food With Integrity.

They consider their ingredients as good as gold, and to give them a bit of attention, we developed a new section of their site that allows people to explore a gold-covered world where Chipotle’s pride is almost ubiquitous. It’s part of their Wrap What You Love campaign, and it’s a lot of .... read on ›

We’ve been working with the new personal finance community Adaptu.com for several months, helping them visualize the many ways that people can better understand their finances.

Recently we launched a new section of their community called “Visualize Money” which will contain all of the infographics we develop.  Currently you can find the five we created over the 2010 holiday season, and two new ones will be added this month.

The first is already on the site, and takes a look at tax season. Next up, a look at whether or not gold is really a good investment.  Here’s a hint: Yes. .... 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 ›