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Important Announcement

The Lotus Chart is now licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

Our public repository is live on GitHub. What this means is that you are free to download the code and/or adapt it for non-commercial and educational purposes. This new license does permit commercial uses of the source code… with permission. We welcome contributors and collaborators. If you would like to use the source code for a for-profit project, please contact us to discuss terms and pricing.

Further background available from Creative Commons here.

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Technical Analysis

This video captures a real-time, “birds eye view” of the U.S. Stock Market, showing active growth trends and securities metadata for 2000 US ticker symbols at one time. Similar live, interactive, and customizable charts are available for Russell 1K, Russell 2K, and S&P 500. 

Please inquire for pricing.

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Giving Map Animated Time Lapse PSA Goes Viral

Between November 25 (the Wednesday before Thanksgiving) and December 15, 2020, Lotus.fm’s series of time lapse infographics on the spread of COVID-19 went viral on social media, reaching an estimated 6.2 million online viewers with more than 10,000 shares across Facebook and Twitter. These animated 4D data visualizations show cases and deaths from Coronavirus during Fall 2020.

Knowing that holiday travel and gatherings could be a dangerous vector for the virus to spread, we worked hard to reach influencers and get the word out among our base. We believe that data science can change the world and save lives.

Lotus.fm produced these visualizations as Public Service Announcements to accompany the Giving Map: our ongoing initiative for grassroots philanthropy in the areas of the US hardest hit by the pandemic. The PSA animations are available for download and reuse in GIF and MP4 formats, under a Creative Commons license. Please contact us if you require a different resolution or format, or would like to request a time lapse for a specific time period or geographic area.

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Actionable Data

Just published in The Startup—“Actionable Data: Where Design and Data Science Converge.”

What actionable data does is take a measurable, quantifiable data set and connect it to specific calls to action. In essence, it presents you with new information and instead of leaving you to mull (or stew) it provides you with ways to respond. The goal is always to empower users.” 

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Lotus.fm to Present at SCALE on March 8, 2020

We have been selected to speak at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 8. Our topic:
Discovery without Marketing. In the digital age we have lost something: the experience of browsing in a vast record shop or bookstore, discovering intriguing choices next to familiar ones. We are inundated by information, but most remains unseen. Lotus Petal Architecture reveals this invisible information.