Wow..it’s been a while since we updated our blog and plenty has been happening.

The last few months have seen a massive uptick in the amount of work we have been doing and the trend is, fantastically, looking like continuing well into the new year.

In October we attended Web Directions and showcased our twitter visualisation, Concept Lens, during the conference.The feedback was great, and importantly, we got lots of quality leads from people interested in engaging us to help with data visualisation of their data.

Almost immediately after the conference we were engaged with two pieces of work. The first for a very large energy company here in Australia to create a visualisation of their infrastructure assets around the country. Quite unlike the data intensive visualisations we have been familiar with this piece was a combination of mapping, images, movie making and voice overs resulting in a 7 minute data visualisation as movie that was presented to over 200 people internally.

The second was a more technical oriented piece of work with Telstra, assisting them, very briefly, in some development work required for the launch of their new set top box product due early next year.

In early November we submitted our entry to the Mashup Australia competition. Forgoing the omnipresent “Google Maps Mashup” we created a custom visualisation merging the weather in Melbourne in 2008 with air quality data during the same period from the EPA. Aside from some exceptionally obvious vote rigging, the competition has been fantastic for the development community in Australia with Hackdays held in Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne.

The rest of November has seen us Toiling in the Data Mines, to quote Tom Armitage at Berg. We’ve been working with a new, and hopefully long term, client to undertake some hardcore data mining, clustering and sentiment analysis. This work has a huge amount of potential and this morning we delivered the initial results to the client. We’re exceptionally proud of what we have done in this piece of work, especially given the tight timeframes.

This week we get a chance for a brief pause before diving back into it with client presentations next week and initial meetings with some potential clients we would be very excited to work with.

Then, hopefully, it’s into implementation for a couple of projects over the Dec/Jan period leading into Feb and, probably, a trip to New Zealand for some conference connection making.