This week during Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, we’re debuting a new workshop in our series of data visualization classes. The event is *this* Thursday September 13th, from 6 to 8:30pm, at Stamen’s studio in San Francisco’s Mission District. You can get more info and sign up for tickets on Eventbrite! This workshop...
What insights are lurking in your data? What stories could you tell if you could transform your dull tables and spreadsheets into lively, interactive, and beautiful graphics and visualizations? Sign up for our Data Visualization Foundations workshop, and we’ll help you learn to create your own data visualizations through hands-on, in-person instruction! This two-day workshop — hosted...
Sure, your drone can take videos and photos from above, but while you’re taking those photos why not turn them into something mappy? OpenDroneMap is an open source toolkit that can help you do that. It takes aerial imagery such as that created with your drone and turns it into several other types of data,...
“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.” — Manuel Lima, quoting computer scientist Ben Schneiderman “Data visualization is not your creative outlet; data visualization is making data understandable.” — OpenVizConf “[Before the Data Viz Project] there [was] no one place to go, where there are the correct answers for how the data visualizations work.” — Jeppe “Yes, you can design...
Sign up now for our next workshop on Data Visualization Foundations, now scheduled for June 2nd & 3rd! This hands-on class, which we developed with dataviz expert Curran Kelleher (author of D3.js in Motion) will teach you the fundamentals of visual communication with complex information. It’s well-suited for beginner-to-intermediate practitioners and anyone who wants to...
Have you been eager to learn a new skill this year? Join us in the Stamen studio for our hands-on data visualization classes and learn from experts in the field! Our next class starts on March 24th, so sign up soon! We’re filling out our schedule of classes for the year, starting with our Designing...
We keep finding ourselves here. Last time I published an article I spoke about how I went about creating a 3D cut map for Matson’s office in Oakland with Stamen. In this post I’ll outline what it took to make a 32′x10′ high res satellite image (that’s 13,824,000 pixels) for SPUR’s office in SOMA. SPUR...
2017 was a big year for the shop. We delivered data visualization projects for clients working in: Museums, Cities and Infrastructure, Land conservation in the American West, Global Health, Satellite imagery and neural networks, built some Data visualization platforms and Giant 3d murals, and ran and participated in multiple Data visualization classes & workshops. And...
This is an abridged version of a talk I gave at the amazing Teatro Petruzelli for TEDx Bari: Disorder on November 19, 2017. All errors are my own. A bundle of digital technologies is reshaping our lives and how we make all kinds of transactions. It’s also reshaping the built environment, as access to digital...
We recently launched a new tool with transportation consultants Fehr & Peers and the District Department of Transportation (ddot). TripsDC is a tool for generating trip estimates for mixed use development projects in the District of Columbia. Most transportation models tend to assume that a development is either retail, or work space, or housing, and so they don’t really account for...