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 Infosthetics.com.  Here’s an excerpt:

Yahoo! recently released a dedicated data visualization website [yahoo.com] to highlight their Content Optimization and Relevance Engine (C.O.R.E.), a service that aims to personalize the Yahoo! experience depending on a collection of demographic (e.g. gender and age) and geographic (e.g. cities) variables, in combination with personal interests (e.g. Finance, Sports, Health).

The visualization, developed by Periscopic, allows to explore the relevant content of their homepage according to a set of user-selected parameters, so that one can solve questions like: “What is the most popular story for females between 18 and .... read on ›

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 ›

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’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 ›

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 ›

Talk to Me, a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, features a variety of designs “that enhance communicative possibilities and embody a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological breakthroughs up or down to a comfortable, understandable human scale.”

We’re so very honored to be included in this exhibit, which runs from July 24 – November 7, 2011.

Check out the other works, and read more about the exhibit on the MoMa web site.

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 ›

It was nice to hear that our work on Chipotle.com has helped generate accolades and praise at this year’s Webby Awards. Hats off to Sequence who was the lead agency on this project. (We did the Flash work throughout the site.)

Here’s what the Webby Awards site tells us to do next:

Congratulations! Your organization has been selected as a Winner for The 15th Annual Webby Awards. Out of nearly 10,000 entries that were submitted, there are only a handful of Winners, and your work is among them. Whether selected as a Winner by The Academy or chosen by the .... read on ›