I was lucky enough to be invited to give the first talk at Visualized 2019 in San Francisco last week. Tamara Munzner, whose book we have at HQ, talked about encoding data. Vetria Byrd teaches dataviz to undergrad students and is seeking to broaden participation in the field. Steve Franconeri discussed principles for annotating visualizations...
In July 2015, after my first two years at Stamen, I wrote a blog post called “Year Two at Stamen”. It’s now been another three (plus) years since then, and a lot has happened. Shortly after I wrote that last blog post, my role changed from Design Technologist to Lead Cartographer, later also adding Director...
I’ve been using OpenStreetMap (OSM) for over 12 years now, and to this day I’m still impressed and amazed by how far this project has come. The audacity of OpenStreetMap’s core ideals — that volunteers can create and maintain a detailed map of the world, and that this collaborative map would be more democratic and fair than...
This conversation is about Stamen’s recent mural for YBCA’s Bay Area Now show. The mural, which is 60 feet long and at the corner of Mission and Third Streets in San Francisco, is about the impact that climate change will have on bird populations in the Golden Gate Recreational Area, just north of San Francisco,...
by Eric Rodenbeck and Keir Winesmith Stamen Design, Send Me SFMOMA data visualization; image courtesy SFMOMA Last June, SFMOMA launched the SMS-based service Send Me SFMOMA. The initiative was conceived as a way to shed light on the museum’s vast collection, only a fraction of which is on view at any given time. Send Me...
What makes one place feel different from another? The language, the food, the landscape, but also a hundred subtler things: the colors that houses are painted, the speed people walk, the siren sounds and… the way that data flows to cloud servers? When Google approached Stamen to develop an engaging visualization of Cloud Storage traffic,...
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...