We’ve just completed a mapping/data visualization project for One.org, the watchdog group that tracks the G8 and EU’s spending commitments to Africa. The site represents each member country as a flag-filled circle, sized according to the relative size of that country’s contribution. We track and display four variables for each country: percentage of total income,...
Today’s the day to announce, along with Laughing Squid and CNET, the public beta of Mondo Window, which lets you see what you’re looking at out your airplane window. As far as we know, this is the first sitedesigned specifically for use with in-flight internet, but those bragging rights are less important than the fact...
I’m a little late in posting about our new project with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, designed to accompany the Museum’s exhibit on Andy Warhol’s screen tests.The project was designed to let the public participate in a central part of Warhol’s output: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol’s...
We’re slowly putting HQ2 together after a horde of 40 urbanists, developers, writers and city administrators (btw what collective noun would be better here — a murmuration of urbanists? a obstinacy of developers? a labour of writers? a complication of city administrators?) descended on the studio for the first City Tracking: Data and Cities conference. I had...
Cheerio Maps is a view of housing data from http://www.ziprealty.com/ that we (and when I say we, I mean Aaron) visualized in early 2010. The maps look at how the sizes, prices and ages of houses vary across the San Francisco Bay Area, and uses circles of different sizes to denote greater and lesser values....
Today we’re announcing the public beta of Dotspotting, a project designed to help people work with geographic data in ways that are intelligible, straightforward and useful in the real world. You can sign up for an account or just take a peek around at http://dotspotting.stamen.com. Dotspotting is the first project Stamen is releasing as part...
There’s alot to talk about as we continue to move forward with Dotspotting. I’m going to try and blog a bit more frequently about it and describe individual aspects of the project, instead of waiting for a big long blog post that takes me all afternoon, and see how that goes. Search So yesterday I...
Since Mike launched Walking Papers I’ve been fascinated with the aesthetic quality of the scans that people have been uploading. Last weekend, when he and Aaron were down at Camp Roberts working on the project, I asked him to make a change to the way that scans are displayed so that the maps are easier...