Dataviz is clearly having a moment in the COVID-19 and social justice crisis — perhaps a definitive moment. Every time I turn around I see another chart, set of small multiples, dashboard. Some of them are great, some of them are just so-so, and some of them are actively dangerous, just like any other form of expression...
Relative mobility change across the United States, derived from Facebook data When it comes to slowing the relentless march of Covid-19, data is a powerful tool. Data has helped counties and states and countries track cases and deaths, determine the most effective ways to bend the curve, and see in real time whether actions are...
Stamen’s collaboration with UCSF takes on new urgency in the age of COVID-19. Kelly Morrison wrote the first draft of this post Nine months ago, a team from UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity led by Dr. Debby Oh, hired us to build an online data visualization tool to...
The last year of the decade gave us plenty of opportunities to work and play with data of all kinds, from governance indices to cloud storage data to a mostly unseen but truly vast archive of “motorized photographs” by Ed Ruscha. As always, it’s the diversity of projects that come through here that I’m most...
Thanks to Kelly Morrison for her help co-writing this post. Stamen was asked to create six maps using XYZ Studio, a new web app from HERE that allows users to create custom maps from large datasets. We sat down to talk about the process and the product (viewable at https://explore.xyz.here.com/gallery) with the map makers: Alan...
View the project live at http://www.superdiv.mmg.mpg.de/ Eric Rodenbeck: We’re here with Stamen’s Logan Williams talking about our recent work for the Max Planck institute visualizing super-diversity. What’s the project about? Logan Williams: This was a project initiated by professors at the Max Planck Institute and the University of British Columbia, to show how the nature...
I was lucky enough to be invited to give the first talk at Visualized 2019 in San Francisco last week. Tamara Munzner, whose book we have at HQ, talked about encoding data. Vetria Byrd teaches dataviz to undergrad students and is seeking to broaden participation in the field. Steve Franconeri discussed principles for annotating visualizations...
This conversation is about Stamen’s recent mural for YBCA’s Bay Area Now show. The mural, which is 60 feet long and at the corner of Mission and Third Streets in San Francisco, is about the impact that climate change will have on bird populations in the Golden Gate Recreational Area, just north of San Francisco,...
This post originally appeared on Cointracker’s blog and was written by Chandan Lodha. At CoinTracker, we are building a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. CoinTracker syncs crypto transactions and balances from the top exchanges & wallets to deliver a unified dashboard of your cryptocurrency portfolio performance. CoinTracker also helps users calculate their cryptocurrency taxes...