Periscopic Now

We’re honored to be featured in the February issue of Print Magazine.

Their article, Data Swims Upstream, is an interview with Periscopic co-founder Dino Citraro and highlights our sustainability efforts, our creative process, and the role we see data visualization playing in a world of information overload.

Here’s an excerpt:

In general, data visualizations deal with facts. Sometimes they can be manipulated to support a specific point of view, but for the most part, the raw data lets you take an objective look at what’s actually going on, and then draw a conclusion.

Unfortunately, things are becoming so cloudy now, especially in legislative .... 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 ›

Recently Adobe AIR made became a significantly stronger tool. It now is capable of running native applications via the NativeProcess API. While NativeProcess is only available when outputting to a native installer and targeting the extendedDesktop profile, it is invaluable when an AIR application requires all the privileges allowed to a Java or C# app. A limitation of NativeProcess, however, is its inability to interact with certain command line utilities, features, and applications written in interpreted languages (such as Python).

In order to sidestep this shortcoming we wrote two pieces: a small C++ based application which acts as a proxy and an .... read on ›