Facebook Beatquake: What millions of sound waves traveling through Facebook look like

| 05.28.13

Facebook Stories has just released their third visualization project with us, which we’re affectionately calling “Beatquake.” The project is designed to show listening activity across Facebook over the course of 90 days. We were all surprised how popular Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis is. It blew out most of the investigative charting we...

Facebook: Engineering a Beatquake

| 05.28.13

Today we want to draw back the curtain on our most recent piece for Facebook Stories: Beatquake. More than 110 million songs, albums and radio stations have been played 40 billion times through apps integrated with open graph. So what does it look like when a song goes viral on Facebook? Inspired by old-school graphic...

New Work: All Over The

| 05.22.13

The California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF) released an update to their “All Over The Map” survey of elective surgery and other procedure rates across the country yesterday. Funded by CHCF, this research is designed to help Californians understand their local healthcare region performs against the California average. Stamen worked with the CHCF a second time on...

Stamen, Maps, and Brightworks

| 05.04.13

Remember being a kid and daydreaming about what it would be like if school wasn’t just rows of desks and boring classes? What if you could go to a school where, instead of memorizing facts you may never reference again, you learned how to garden, make art, build things (based on math equations!), and work...