The Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, builds knowledge tools that permit actionable insight from the use of interactive visual displays. We work at two levels: practical engagement on soon-to-be released projects; and, modeling future tool scenarios and theoretical efforts toward “next-next deployment.” Co-founded by Former Senator Robert Kerrey (D-NE) and Professor William Bevington, the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) is a one-of-a-kind university research and real-world development facility within The New School. Our primary mission is to support decision makers in their quest to rapidly understand, analyze, and react to large amounts of complex data. Christopher Goranson is the current director of PIIM, Jihoon Kang is the project lead on the HealthBoard tool.
PIIM’s objective is to improve the comprehension and usability of complex and extensive data through innovative and intuitive applications. Our goal is to address society’s urgent need to convert extensive or mathematically incomplete sets of data into visual patterns that render useful, actionable information—through the ideal marriage of design and technology. We either leverage our full engineering capability to realize our client's goals, or, we build the front-ends and information architecture to support our clients engineering expertise.
This work is supported by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) through award W81XWH-11-2-0025.
