blog/Process

Announcing Prettymaps

| 08.12.10

Close readers of Aaron’s blog and flickr stream know that he’s been thinking for some time about making maps out of things that people do, whether it’s geotagging photos or tracing streets or deriving urban areas from analysis of satellite photos, and posting his experiments with them as he goes. I’m zazzed (thanks AG) to...

Projects using Cabspotting

| 08.11.10

Did you know that the Cabspotting project we designed with Scott Snibbe for the Exploratorium, is still going strong, providing a live view into the minute-by-minute realtime positions and status of the Yellow Cab taxi service in San Francisco? And that the project has an API that you can use to access this data in...

Quova: Trying something new

| 08.10.10

I’m excited to announce the start of a new kind of project for Stamen, working with the geolocation experts at Quova to explore the opportunities for visualization of their truly ginormous dataset — geographic information on all of the IP addresses on the internet. What’s new here, for us, is that we’ve agreed to publicly blog about...

MTV Movie Awards 2010

| 06.08.10

We paid a visit to the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles this past weekend, where Eric, Sha and I spent the weekend producing and supporting an on-line/on-air visualization of live Twitter traffic about the stars and movies featured in the show. This was the most recent high-profile use of our recently-launched Eddy platform, and...

CNN: Home and Away

| 05.25.10

We’ve been working with our friends at CNN for almost a year on a project that is live as of today, a mapping of coalition casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan called Home and Away and live on CNN.com. The project is a sobering look at the human cost of two wars in the Middle East,...

We’re hiring an Executive Producer

| 04.21.10

So that, among a large number of other things, I can spend more time blogging and thinking and creative directing, we’re hiring an Executive Producer for Stamen: It’s time for us to bring on a full time Executive Producer to reduce the silence in the studio. Our growing field of opportunities and active projects means...

What Canada Winning The Olympic Hockey Gold Medal Looked Like On Twitter

| 03.03.10

One of the great things about being involved with projects like twitter visualizations of the Olympics is being able to look back at an event that basically the whole world is paying attention to, and seeing the way that attention was focused at events that make their way into culture and our collective memory. Sunday’s...

Stamen Designs Live Twitter Visualizations of the Vancouver Olympics

| 02.13.10

I’ve been feeling for some time now that the data visualization space is about to go completely bananas, where “bananas” means “taken for granted” in the sense that no major cultural event will feel complete without a corresponding live data visualization. The breadth and depth of the conversation happening on twitter around the Olympics is...

Hope For Haiti on MTV

| 01.23.10

The Hope For Haiti telethon is winding down and by all accounts things the after party is going smoothly. The live map we designed & built for MTV is here, there’s some conversation going on about it here, and it looks something like this when it’s in full swing: It’s early Saturday morning in Munich,...

The deal with Cabspotting

| 11.20.09

As previously mentioned, Cabspotting has been getting successively less live GPS taxi data from Yellow Cab during the last few months, resulting in an anemic and much spindlier (spindlier?) view of San Francisco than is normal when it’s in a healthy state: Being Stamen, of course we didn’t think to just pick up the phone...