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Visualizing a day of financial transactions on NASDAQ part 2

| 07.25.12

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...

Visualizing a day of financial transactions on NASDAQ

| 07.24.12

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...

Watercolor New York, 20×200

| 07.18.12

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...

Detailed Toner v2 (2012) change notes

| 07.16.12

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...

Toner V2 is live, and there are historical versions

| 07.03.12

We’ve got some new additions to Toner, the black and white style that Geraldine started and that Nathaniel and Mike have been gradually improving this year. There are some fairly significant changes to the cartography stack all the way through, which you can read about in detail at the project’s visual changelog on GitHub. And...

Just the streets, ma’am.

| 07.03.12

The first thing I thought after we hung a copy of London’s Kerning, a printed map showing only the street names in London, in the studio, was: I want one of those for the rest of the world. “How hard can it be to just(people here love that) show the streets?” As part of the...

Trees, Cabs & Crime in the Venice Biennale

| 06.26.12

This post was originally published on stamen.com by Shawn Allen. We’re proud to announce that Trees, Cabs and Crime will be on display in the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale this fall. The Institute for Urban Design was chosen by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs to...

Creepy Maps: Quarantine Your City

| 06.21.12

Earlier this year we worked with Warner Bros. to create an interactive map called Quarantine Your City on which fans of the latest Oren Peli thriller, Chernobyl Diaries, could vote to see a special screening in their city. The plot follows a group of modern-day American tourists on an “adventure tour” of Pripyat, the site...

“Clouds” and the Pointcloud Remix Project

| 06.20.12

A couple of weeks ago, the video Clouds premiered at the Wired Frames exhibit at Eyebeam in NYC. I had the good fortune of being involved in this project, which was led by documentary filmmaker Jonathan Minard and creative coder James George. The three of us met at the Art&&Code conference in Pittsburgh, in October...

Weather weather everywhere

| 06.15.12

We’ve been working on a travel planner for the Weather Channel that tells you a bit more than just how long it’ll take to get from point A to point B. This one predicts what the weather’s going to be like along your drive,when you get there. So let’s say you’re driving from New York...