Academic projects afford us the chance to work with experts in their fields. Sometimes this involves making public presentations, like for the Getty and Ed Ruscha. Sometimes it means building tools for expert scientists, like UC Berkeley.

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Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas

Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research came to us with a large and unique dataset of historical census data for the areas that are now Manhattan and Brooklyn dating back to 1850. In addition to being ag...

Tracking viruses with WastewaterSCAN

What if you could check pathogen levels like you do the weather? We collaborated with WastewaterSCAN to develop a comprehensive platform for visualizing virus data collected from wastewater treatment plants across the United States. ...

Optimizing disaster response CrisisReady

CrisisReady, a research collaboration between the Harvard Data Science Initiative and Direct Relief, aims to advance data-driven decision making in emergency scenarios. They reached out to Stamen...

Ed Ruscha’s Photo Archive for the Getty Institute

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He ha...

Global Superdiversity with the Max Planck Institute

Urban populations today show fluctuating combinations of nationality, ethnicity,...

PENNY Machine Learning Tools with Digital Globe

Penny is an AI built by Stamen Design and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University on top of GBDX, DigitalGlobe’s ...

Lake Tahoe in Depth

To support understanding the science of the lake, the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) releases an annual State of the Lake Rep...

David Rumsey Map Center

David Rumsey has collected thousands of atlases and hundreds of globes. Atlases for the blind. Gigantic collections of watercolor drawings of the Grand Canyon. Ten-foot-long painted maps of the seven principle rivers of Asia all flowing in to the ...

The Atlas of Emotions for the Dalai Lama & Paul Ekman

After having co-written several books together, the Dalai Lama asked his friend, scientist Dr. Paul Ekman, to design him an Atlas of Human Emotion, and Paul asked us to help him. His Holiness was intrigued by conversations that...

Metagenomics with The Banfield Lab

It’s easy to think that we’ve discovered most of the species on the planet. In fact, the booming field of metagenomics – the study of genomic sequences – is using big data to help scientists better understand ne...