What’s In Your Wallet: Cryptocurrency Coin Correlations

| 10.30.18

This post originally appeared on Cointracker’s blog and was written by Chandan Lodha. At CoinTracker, we are building a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. CoinTracker syncs crypto transactions and balances from the top exchanges & wallets to deliver a unified dashboard of your cryptocurrency portfolio performance. CoinTracker also helps users calculate their cryptocurrency taxes...

New maps in the cloud with HERE XYZ!

| 09.20.18

For the last couple of months, Stamen Design has been lucky to have access to an internal beta of HERE XYZ, the powerful new mapping solution from HERE Technologies. XYZ is now available for public beta, so you can try it too! As you explore XYZ, we believe our experiences can serve as a guide...

The Future of Birds in our National Parks

| 03.22.18

The birds you expect to see in your favorite National Park may be radically changing soon due to climate change. It’s been a joy and an honor to help the @audubonsociety with the visualizations in this new landmark study called “The Future of Birds in our National Parks,” which launched yesterday. There are three main...

Big Glass Microphone is a data visualization of a 5km long fiber optic cable buried underneath Stanford University for the V&A.

| 05.15.17

We’re excited to announce Big Glass Microphone, a collaboration between Stamen Design and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Yesssssssss! Infrastructure is all around us. Some we can see, like roads, and some we can’t, like radio waves. Big Glass Microphone looks at the intersection between these two kinds of infrastructure by visualizing the vibrations in...

Tracking habitat restoration in western Montana with maps and data visualization

| 01.11.17

We recently designed a habitat explorer for MPG Ranch, one of our favorite clients. It’s a dynamic system that helps their scientists communicate about the exciting restoration and other work that they’re doing on the ranch, using the latest web-friendly tools and techniques. Eric Rodenbeck (ER) I’m here with Nicolette Hayes, and we’re talking about...

Using open data to learn about land use in Los Angeles

| 09.16.16

by Eric Rodenbeck and Alan McConchie An industrial stretch in the City of Industry OpenStreetMap’s Los Angeles County building import is well under way, having imported over 1.5 million buildings so far, and with another 1.5 million to go! We were proud to help get the project off the ground, and it’s now taken on...

Say hello to global Stamen terrain maps

| 07.12.16

I think I’m goin’ to Katmandu,That’s really really where I’m going to Hello, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia & French Guiana! | Left: 2016 | Right 2014 As of today we are live! with a new and improved global version of our terrain map, first launched with the support of the Knight News Challenge,...

Tracking birds of prey from Mexico to Alaska and back

| 07.06.16

Osprey migration paths in North America It’s an exciting time to be interested in birds! Parrots are giving testimony in murder trials. Night parrots, thought to be extinct for 100 years, are being captured and tagged. Thousands of glowing pigeons carrying LEDs are flying through the air in giant collaborative night-time flocking art projects. And...

Diving into ecosystem data with Berkeley’s Ecoengine and interfaces from Stamen

| 05.05.16

New Tools for Research with UC BerkeleyExplore, Compare, Inspire! Most people know that the University of California at Berkeley is a world-class research university. Some folks have heard of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. But not so many people know that the university houses seven natural history museums which together hold 12 million specimens that...

Introducing the Atlas of Emotions, our new project with the Dalai Lama and Paul & Eve Ekman

| 04.26.16

In 2014, the Dalai Lama asked his friend, scientist Dr. Paul Ekman, to design him an Atlas of Human Emotion. His Holiness was intrigued by conversations that he and Paul had been having over the years about their different views on the subject of emotion. His Holiness comes, of course, from the Buddhist tradition. Paul’s...