Periscopic Now

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 ›

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 ›