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...
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,...
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...
For re-posting as far as the winds will take it: we are looking for a Studio Manager to help Deborah keep things running smoothly around here. Specifically: We’re looking for a confident, caring and motivated person to help run our busy Mission design studio. We are looking for someone with excellent organization skills, who’s clear...
We learned today that San Francisco Crimespotting was featured in today’s Guardian, which is nice! Esopus was kind enough to send a link to an online viewer, and Zapme’s offered to send us a copy, and the article below that one is about how London’s talking about doing the same thing — get with it, people! Image...
Sha and I are here at GAFFTA after midnight the night before the show (and the place is packed! packed, I say, with smarties), finishing up the final details of our installation (which opens tomorrow), Alfonso and Julie (pictured below) are gracefully and delicately applying our wall-sized maps to the walls of the mezzanine, Josette...
As promised, here are some screenshots and photos taken during yesterday’s music awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall. Radian6 polled twitter data in real time, searching for MTV, VMA, and a few other event-related terms, as well as the names of all the celebrities that we knew would be at the event. The idea...
We’re happy to release two updates to the interactive map that address our most frequent feedback requests: you can now filter crime reports by time of day, and link to and view custom reports for the last two years of crime in Oakland. Hours The interface we’ve created to navigate through the hours of the...
Well, seeing as we’ve got a President who’s asserting the necessity of science (and that it will no longer be subject to political ideology, hooray, what a rock we’ve been under for the past eight years, doesn’t the day feel brighter?).. …it feels like as good a day as any to announce Stamen’s new work...