Stamen alum Sha Hwang and I shared a stage last night at Arkitektura’s Design Assembly in their lovely Soma showroom. Besides the obvious awesomeness of sharing a stage with Sha (whose work at Trulia is up there with the best), it’s always fun to talk to an audience of designers; their focus on how things...
A new installment in our continuing study of Bay Area infrastructure is live, at https://stamen.com/zero1. Some early coverage of the project here and here. We’ve mapped the Bay Area’s crime and taxis before, but in each case a source of data was readily available for the taking. In this case, we decided to try something...
Today we launched “Mapping the World’s Friendships,” a project visualizing the degree of interconnectedness between Facebook’s hundreds of millions of members as part of Facebook’s new Storiesinitiative. Countries are sorted by a combination of how many Facebook friendships there are between countries, and the total number of Facebook friendships there are in that country. Turns...
Since launching maps.stamen.com and making the maps available for purchase in select cities on 20×200we’ve been lucky enough to receive a steady trickle of interest from people who want to print the maps themselves. For those unlucky enough to have missed the watercolor letterpress map that went out withJason Kottke’s marvelous Quarterly.co subscription service, we’re...
In 2008 we designed a hurricane tracker for MSNBC, right as Irene was “bearing down on Louisiana like a shotgun full of wind and rain.” The project worked fine for several seasons of hurricanes and tropical storms, until Apple killed Flash in 2011 and the world of interactive mapping and data visualization turned its attention...
Every year around this time in San Francisco things start to feel a little rushed, and there’s anticipation in the air as a whole slice of society hauls itself out to the middle of the Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival. I’m not going myself this year, but my good friend Zach Coffin...
This is a followup to yesterday’s post on the visualization of a day’s worth of trading data on the NASDAQ stock exchange. We’ve taken another look at the same dataset a bit more closely. In the examples that follow, each of which represents a single minute of trading, the image on the left uses a...
Earlier this year Zach Watson and I spent some time visualizing financial data. It’s time to make that work public. The following images represent visualization of buy/sell data during a single day of NASDAQ trades. We mapped a small subset of the variables for each transaction: time of the transaction, to the second whether it...
We’re pleased to announce our second collaboration with Jen Bekman’s 20×200, releasing gorgeous prints of New York City today, and London shortly. There will be more cities coming over the next few months, so please stay tuned! It was a nice sidestep to work with the maps at high resolution, and on paper. We also...
Eric gave a general overview of the changes we rolled out for Toner v2 in this post and this post. In my post I dig into the technical details. But first, pictures! Visual changelog for Toner 2012: Toner v2 (2012 and 2011) uses High Road for more sophisticated roads and tucks San Francisco’s punky park...