Sometimes at Stamen we get the chance to create physical works of data visualization for our clients in the tactile world. Matson recently commissioned us to create an anchoring art piece for the boardroom at their recently redesigned offices in Oakland, CA. You may recognize the name from their logo on the side of shipping...
This Sunday, join Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen founder and Creative Director, and Aman Tiwari, Stamen summer intern, Carnegie Mellon student and co-author of Terrapattern, for a bizarre and fascinating tour through the cartographic visions of artificial intelligence. In this informal seminar at the Stamen studio in San Francisco’s Mission District, Eric and Aman will share some...
Eric Rodenbeck interviews Kai Chang and Alec Burch about their latest work with the World Health Organization Eric Rodenbeck, Kai Chang, & Alec Burch Eric Rodenbeck: I’m here with Kai Chang and Alec Burch. We’re here talking about our most recent work with the World Health Organization. We’ve worked with them before. Kai Chang: We...
http://penny.digitalglobe.com There’s an artificial intelligence in the sky that is working on predicting your household income just by looking down at your house from space. “Penny,” as this AI is playfully called, was built by us, with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (one of them is Aman Tiwari and he is our intern this summer),...
ALEC BURCH: We’ve just launched some new work with WE&RF, the Water Environment and Reuse Foundation. Every two to three years they send out a survey to different water utilities all across the country and across the world. The survey is centered around different types of water technologies that they are using, may use, or...
I’m pleased to announce that we’re offering our popular mapping and visualization classes again this year, in our Mission District studio in San Francisco! This pair of classes focusses on how to design and build interactive online maps using the latest open source visualization tools. Learn how to combine data and design to make beautiful...
At Stamen we’ve passed the last month with a growing sense of concern and unease at the direction that our current President is trying to take the United States. I’m concerned that this administration is recklessly careening forward to do what it can to undermine the checks and balances that have kept this democracy vibrant....
Every year, the team at Stamen is lucky enough to work with a wide range of clients and collaborators. Last year was a banner year for variety! The work ranged from visualizations of the hidden world of genetic ecosystems to an Atlas of Emotion for the Dalai Lama, with a diverse array of other projects...
…a guide for anyone interested in using D3.v4 forces, and especially those interested in creating their own custom forces and transitions. A recent Stamen project gave me an opportunity to dive into D3.v4’s forceSimulation() — a modularized version of v3’s force layouts with a ton of improvements. This investigation resulted in two new force modules, ready for...
Stamen spent much of 2015 building and designing American Panorama, a wide-ranging historical atlas for the 21st century. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the atlas is a project of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. In addition to the maps, the project also involved creating a set of open source tools for...