We welcomed our friend Santiago Ortiz to San Francisco with a happy hour at Stamen HQ last Friday, and this is what happened. If you like what you see, we want YOU to join the dataviz community! One way to get started is with our geospatial data visualization classes, starting this Sunday. I can’t promise...
Server-Free Web Map Tile Generation Some various map tiles of the MPG Ranch area, in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. Recently at Stamen and thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we’ve been experimenting with a new way of generating raster map tiles using AWS Lambda with open source GIS software....
Visualizing global satellite coverage with Planet Earlier this year Robbie Schingler, co-founder of Planet, asked Stamen to design and build a presentation that showed: Which spots on the globe Planet has daily or near-daily coverage of How this daily coverage changes during the year, due to weather and satellite deployment What progress Planet has made...
Late this summer, 10 people gathered at Stamen Design’s studios to learn how to design and work with geospatial data on the web. What we set out to do We all set aside 4 hours of a Sunday afternoon to get a hands-on introduction to the leading tools for web based mapping visualization. With a repo full...
It’s easy to think that we’ve discovered most of the species on the planet. In fact, the booming field of metagenomics is using big data to help scientists better understand new and vast unexplored regions of the natural world: the microbiome. In the last few years, the price of genetic sequencing has plummeted to the...
My friend Tania Ketenjian interviewed Eve Ekman and I about our project with the Dalai Lama, the Atlas of Emotions, the other week for the BBC World Service. You can listen to the episode here (we’re on at 20:35), and what follows is a transcript of that interview. Reviewing the design of the Atlas of...
Earlier this year Robbie Schingler, co-founder of Planet, asked Stamen to design and build a presentation that showed: Which spots on the globe Planet has daily or near-daily coverage of How this daily coverage changes during the year, due to weather and satellite deployment What progress Planet has made and is making towards its mission...
Stamen has been working on data visualization projects for 15 years(!) – with nine years of blog posts on our work…scattered across a potpourri of blogging platforms. As of today, all our posts from yesteryear have been migrated over to our Medium publication, Hi.Stamen.com. We hope you’ll enjoy looking back at some of our work...
Or Tangifying the Intangible Just over a year ago I showed up to my first day as a designer at Stamen Design and was asked to distill 30 years of scientific knowledge about human emotion into an interactive visualization that would be presented to the Dalai Lama in a few months time. And then things...
One of the core visualizations in the Atlas of Emotions shows the range of states of each of the 5 emotions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and enjoyment). For example, annoyance, argumentativeness, and fury are all states of anger. But, the states vary quite a bit in terms of their intensity: annoyance is relatively mild, fury...