A new installment in our continuing study of Bay Area infrastructure is live, at https://stamen.com/zero1. Some early coverage of the project here and here. We’ve mapped the Bay Area’s crime and taxis before, but in each case a source of data was readily available for the taking. In this case, we decided to try something...
Today we launched “Mapping the World’s Friendships,” a project visualizing the degree of interconnectedness between Facebook’s hundreds of millions of members as part of Facebook’s new Storiesinitiative. Countries are sorted by a combination of how many Facebook friendships there are between countries, and the total number of Facebook friendships there are in that country. Turns...
This is a followup to yesterday’s post on the visualization of a day’s worth of trading data on the NASDAQ stock exchange. We’ve taken another look at the same dataset a bit more closely. In the examples that follow, each of which represents a single minute of trading, the image on the left uses a...
Earlier this year Zach Watson and I spent some time visualizing financial data. It’s time to make that work public. The following images represent visualization of buy/sell data during a single day of NASDAQ trades. We mapped a small subset of the variables for each transaction: time of the transaction, to the second whether it...
We’re pleased to announce our second collaboration with Jen Bekman’s 20×200, releasing gorgeous prints of New York City today, and London shortly. There will be more cities coming over the next few months, so please stay tuned! It was a nice sidestep to work with the maps at high resolution, and on paper. We also...
Eric gave a general overview of the changes we rolled out for Toner v2 in this post and this post. In my post I dig into the technical details. But first, pictures! Visual changelog for Toner 2012: Toner v2 (2012 and 2011) uses High Road for more sophisticated roads and tucks San Francisco’s punky park...
We’ve got some new additions to Toner, the black and white style that Geraldine started and that Nathaniel and Mike have been gradually improving this year. There are some fairly significant changes to the cartography stack all the way through, which you can read about in detail at the project’s visual changelog on GitHub. And...
We’re the cover story (!) of this month’s Icon Magazine, featured alongside my longtime heroes at the Center for Land Use Interpretation as part of the maps issue. Ari Messer did a terrific job on the interview, and R.C. Rivera spent an afternoon photographing our plant- and map-filled studio with some lovely results. Unfortunately Shawn...
This post was originally published on stamen.com by Shawn Allen. We’re proud to announce that Trees, Cabs and Crime will be on display in the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale this fall. The Institute for Urban Design was chosen by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs to...