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We can’t promise you’ll get a watercolor map like this one painted on your face, but…

| 10.31.16

We welcomed our friend Santiago Ortiz to San Francisco with a happy hour at Stamen HQ last Friday, and this is what happened. If you like what you see, we want YOU to join the dataviz community! One way to get started is with our geospatial data visualization classes, starting this Sunday. I can’t promise you’ll leave with a map painted on your face, like Ian did, but I can promise you’ll leave with a renewed appreciation for what goes into making geospatial visualizations on the web, which is almost as good!

Eric and Santiago and his family checking out the Stamen collection of popup maps about Apollo 11
Hanging out in the rain room, under the money tree
Ian and Santiago. Welcome to San Francisco, Santiago!
If I knew it was going to be that kind of party….
When bananas attack

Published: 10.31.16
Updated: 09.20.22

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