Periscopic Now

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’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.

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›