We’re hosting our first conference on Data Visualization and Cities, to explore both the current state and the near horizons of this up-surging field in a convergence of practitioners in the field, government data and stakeholders, innovators and visionaries. More about the gathering and the Knight Foundation (who’s paying for all of this) at http://citytracking.org/...
Cheerio Maps is a view of housing data from http://www.ziprealty.com/ that we (and when I say we, I mean Aaron) visualized in early 2010. The maps look at how the sizes, prices and ages of houses vary across the San Francisco Bay Area, and uses circles of different sizes to denote greater and lesser values....
Today we’re announcing the public beta of Dotspotting, a project designed to help people work with geographic data in ways that are intelligible, straightforward and useful in the real world. You can sign up for an account or just take a peek around at http://dotspotting.stamen.com. Dotspotting is the first project Stamen is releasing as part...
There’s alot to talk about as we continue to move forward with Dotspotting. I’m going to try and blog a bit more frequently about it and describe individual aspects of the project, instead of waiting for a big long blog post that takes me all afternoon, and see how that goes. Search So yesterday I...
Since Mike launched Walking Papers I’ve been fascinated with the aesthetic quality of the scans that people have been uploading. Last weekend, when he and Aaron were down at Camp Roberts working on the project, I asked him to make a change to the way that scans are displayed so that the maps are easier...
View Project There’s a thread running straight from Newspaper Club to this project. We’ve got all this marvelous infrastructure — newspaper printing presses and everything that goes along with that, like delivery trucks, ink distribution systems and pre-press services in the one example, and phone boxes, land lines running underneath the streets and advertising services on the...
Shawn and I are camped out in a trailer outside BET studios in Washington, DC to support BET, CMT and MTV’s “A Conversation with Barack Obama,” which airs at 4pm Eastern Time today. It’s the usual madcap Keystone Cops situation that seems to be an inevitable part of live television production with wires and cables...
We’ve — finally! — collaborated with the fabulous Jen Bekman’s 20×200 on a print edition of a Stamen project, Prettymaps. 20×200 makes it possible for people to buy art at whatever level they’re comfortable, from $20 to $200, and the project has put art into the hands of lots of people who wouldn’t otherwise afford it, so good on...