Stamen has been working on data visualization projects for 15 years(!) – with nine years of blog posts on our work…scattered across a potpourri of blogging platforms. As of today, all our posts from yesteryear have been migrated over to our Medium publication, Hi.Stamen.com. We hope you’ll enjoy looking back at some of our work...
Last weekend Seth and I attended the State of the Map US conference in Seattle, to catch up on all things OpenStreetMap. We were joined by many Stamen alumni, partners, and friends who gave some very interesting talks as well. Here are links to videos of some of the presentations that Stamen had a hand...
learning and teaching d3 together Learning d3.js and data visualization is a long and sometimes frustrating journey. First, there is the overwhelming amount of choice. From the tens of thousands of examples, to the hundreds of API functions and millions of ways you can combine them with SVG, Canvas or WebGL. Even if you can chart a course across this vast ocean you may find many icebergs lurking...
Stamen is offering classes in data visualization and web mapping at our Mission District studio, starting in June 2016! These two classes are the first of what we hope will be an ongoing series of classes for individuals and organizations to learn from our experts, at the seat of where Stamen has been practicing data...
This week, Stamen is taking part in TAKE THIS HAMMER: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The show, curated by Christian Frock, will bring together works of designers, activists, and community organizations to highlight current themes of activism in a place with a long legacy of citizen...
Last week I gave a couple of presentations around the Bay Area about Stamen Design’s recent project American Panorama. https://twitter.com/jskdecker/status/702705476648067073?s=20 American Panorama is the result of more than a year of work with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, and it’s extremely satisfying to finally get to share it with the world...
Charles Waldheim at Harvard’s Office for Urbanization was kind enough to invite me to give the closing remarks at a meeting yesterday of designers, architects, city planners and municipal leaders at Miami Beach on the topic of Miami Beach and sea level rise. It’s a great place to have this conversation, partly because the city...
Today is an exciting one: we’re pleased to announce that Stamen is offering a summer Fellowship! AND we’re doing it in partnership with longtime friends at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, along with Obscura Digital and Helios. This is a real opportunity for someone to come and work with us and Gray Area for...
We’re delighted to be participating again in the American flagship OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map US, as both sponsors and speakers. Here’s the lineup for Saturday: 9:45 AM: Building Businesses Using OpenStreetMap by Eric Rodenbeck 4:30 PM: Teaching Mapping to Geographers by Stephanie May (Urban Mapping) & Alan McConchie And for Sunday: 11:30 AM:...