A showcase of some of the problems solved with our amazing clients.
The Berggruen Institute came to Stamen with the goal of bringing a fascinating global dataset to life: its Governance Index, which offers important insights into what makes a good government. The Index explores the relationship between democratic feedback, government competence, and the provision of public goods as measures of a good government. Over six years...
Yellow Warbler. Photo: Ben Collier/Audubon Photography Awards Stamen worked with the National Audubon Society to visualize the future of bird species across North America in the face of climate change. Eric Rodenbeck, CEO and creative director of Stamen, sat down to talk with the team to talk about this new work, Survival by Degrees: 389...
The last year of the decade gave us plenty of opportunities to work and play with data of all kinds, from governance indices to cloud storage data to a mostly unseen but truly vast archive of “motorized photographs” by Ed Ruscha. As always, it’s the diversity of projects that come through here that I’m most...
An article by Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic about this project is available here. North American birds are in trouble. This was the stark message embedded in the National Audubon Society’s climate report, Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink, which reveals that nearly two-thirds of bird species are imperiled by current climate...
View the project live at https://stateofwork.dropbox.com/ Dropbox came to Stamen with an idea: that work has become too complicated. Much of the new technology that is supposed to make work more efficient has actually made us less productive. Dropbox wanted to explore this idea — using publicly available data and an editorialized approach — to answer a key question...
Thanks to Kelly Morrison for her help co-writing this post. Stamen was asked to create six maps using XYZ Studio, a new web app from HERE that allows users to create custom maps from large datasets. We sat down to talk about the process and the product (viewable at https://explore.xyz.here.com/gallery) with the map makers: Alan...
We at Stamen have had the pleasure of working with the World Health Organization’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals going back to 2015. Annually we have helped them to develop their report of global vaccination rates (you can see previous work here: 2016, 2017). The following post highlights some of the key findings from...
View the project live at http://www.superdiv.mmg.mpg.de/ Eric Rodenbeck: We’re here with Stamen’s Logan Williams talking about our recent work for the Max Planck institute visualizing super-diversity. What’s the project about? Logan Williams: This was a project initiated by professors at the Max Planck Institute and the University of British Columbia, to show how the nature...
In recent years, San Francisco has become one of the most expensive cities in the world, putting extreme pressure on the arts and culture community that has been an essential part of SF’s unique character. Arts organizations have found it increasingly difficult to find affordable long-term spaces. Thankfully, SF is also home to the Community...
This post originally appeared on Cointracker’s blog and was written by Chandan Lodha. At CoinTracker, we are building a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. CoinTracker syncs crypto transactions and balances from the top exchanges & wallets to deliver a unified dashboard of your cryptocurrency portfolio performance. CoinTracker also helps users calculate their cryptocurrency taxes...