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Stamen partners with academic institutions to craft data visualizations that bring scholarly research to life. Their collaborations with universities and research centers span fields like environmental science, urban studies, and the digital humanities, turning complex datasets into visually engaging, interactive tools. Through projects such as mapping biodiversity, visualizing historical archives, and exploring urban dynamics, Stamen combines design innovation with academic rigor, enhancing the accessibility and impact of research.

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Brain Cartography for UCSF

The Chang Lab at UCSF, a team of neuroscientists studying how we produce and process speech, conducts pioneering neurosurgery for restoring speech in paralyzed patients. Communicating the value o...

Showcasing technology in archival materials with Science Museum

The Science Museum in London needed help creating an exhibit for their museum in Bradford, England to showcase how historians are using advanced digital technologies to bring historical Bradford to life. By using te...

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...

High-res aerial imagery for the Arizona Ecosystems Monitor

We first worked with the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University on the early stages of their platform to monitor stress levels for every tree in the state of Arizona using high-resolution aerial imagery....

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...

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 ...

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...

American Panorama for the University of Richmond

American Panorama brings a great work of US historical scholarship into the 21st century. The project looks at key events and timelines that have shaped American history and is a major piece of digital scholarship by the Digita...