Kim Rees is Head of Information Visualization at Periscopic, and is a prominent individual in the data visualization community. She has presented at several industry events including Strata, OSCON, Wolfram Data Summit, VisWeek, Tableau User Conference, NY Hacks/Hackers, and Portland Data Visualization among others.

She is an advisor to the US Congressional Budget Office. Kim has published papers in Parsons Journal of Information Mapping, was an award winner in the VAST 2010 Challenge, and is a guest blogger for Infosthetics and FlowingData.

Recently, she was the Technical Editor of Visualize This, by Nathan Yau of FlowingData. She was a judge on the WikiViz Challenge 2011 and CommArts Interactive Annual 2012.

Recent Blog Posts

• Data, Fast and Furious
• If You Want to Help Inform the Public, You Need to Actually Inform
• Reflections on Being a Juror for the 18th Communication Arts Interactive Annual

Dino Citraro is Head of Strategic Design and Operations at Periscopic, and has a strong background in problem solving, creative direction, and writing.

A twenty-year veteran of the multimedia industry, his work has spanned immersive online development, application design, interactive motion pictures, multi-player games, and interactive hardware installations.

He is the Visualization Editor of the Big Data journal, as well as a contributing blogger to several industry sites. He is also an accomplished photographer, a published poet, and has written & illustrated seven children’s books.

Recent Blog Posts

• Thoughts on Visualizing U.S. Gun Murders
• Our 40 seconds of data viz goodness
• The State of the Polar Bear on infosthetics.com

Brett channels his substantial programming knowledge, analytic mind, 
and penchant for experimentation into the creation of lucid and compelling
 experiences. He is at ease writing algorithms for Mercator projections, 
Levenshtein distances, and intersections of quadratic curves.

Enamored with all systems both complex and aesthetic, Brett enjoys 
music theory and designing typefaces. He holds a BFA with honors in 
Applied Visual Art from Oregon State University.

Recent Blog Posts

• Introducing EaselFL: HTML5 Animations Renderable in IE8 and Older Browsers.
• Adobe AIR and the command line
• Twine – a Utility for Finessing Tweens

Earl is Head of Technical Design at Periscopic, and has a background in data architecture, motion design, and scripting languages of all sorts.  Aside from his new baby boy and lovely wife, nothing makes him happier than a well thought out piece of code. A strong eye for coding standards makes him the perfect person to manage our excellent developers.

Earl is also a multi-instrument musician and songwriter, loves building online games, reading, and playing basketball. In the office he can often be found humming, whistling, or trying to make someone smile.

Jacob is an experienced graphic designer, illustrator, identity designer, and interaction designer. His breadth of skills allows him to expertly craft and inform design during all project stages. Jacob received his BFA in Visual Design from the University of Oregon.

Jacob is an avid biker and environmentalist. He frequently uses social media tools to let others know about new carbon footprint calculators, crowd sourcing pollution gadgets, and other technology advancements that help keep things green.

Jami applied her Chemistry degree from Carleton College to biology research for several years, where gene expression microarrays piqued her interest in Big Data.

Shortly afterwards, she picked up a MySQL book and started presenting web site visitors with podcast recommendations, and she was hooked. Since then, she’s used many of the major APIs to make music playlists, improve search, and aggregate social media information.

She also loves nearly everything about Portland, from mutant bikes to Farmer’s Markets to microbrews.

Sam  believes that the best ideas deserve the best visual representations, and that data visualization is an excellent way to inform the public in an honest and rational way.

Sam uses his BA in Design and New Media from Western Washington University to help ensure that worthwhile visual stories continue to be told in support of the causes that need them the most.

At home Sam is rarely found without a stringed instrument in hand, and he dreams of one day joining up with a traveling bluegrass band.

Emma’s background and research experience has made her very comfortable working with data, especially data pertaining to change in biological systems. She graduated from Lewis & Clark with a degree in Biology. She has designed and conducted several scientific research projects. She enjoys tapping into her visualization skills to create engaging and informative presentations.

In addition to her science background, Emma has an interest in drawing and painting. These experiences help improve her visual sensibilities and increase her appreciation for the power of images to touch people.

Mark’s earliest creative projects were built with Legos, and as a programmer he finds the same satisfaction in giving form to an imagined construct. He loves learning the workings (and failings) of interconnected systems, and is fascinated by the way code can feel elegant and stylish.

Raised by a physicist and an art critic, he likes exploring the space between disciplines where diverse ideas mingle to create new pockets of knowledge. His interests include creative coding, interactive digital art, and literate programming. Offline, Mark enjoys literature and soccer.

With a background in publication design and typographic infatuation, Katie has a simultaneous passion for complex systems and pixel-perfect details. Above all, she loves working with information. Her best days are when she has too much content to read, demanding a patient hand and insightful eye. More often than not, you can find her surrounded by 11x17s filled with hand-drawn concept maps and information outlines.

Katie is a recent transplant from Raleigh, NC, where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from NC State University’s College of Design. She focused her education towards Sociology and Social Justice, and our “do good with data” mantra was a strong motivator for her 2,851 mile drive across the continental United States.