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Visualizing infant vaccination rates for the World Health Organization

| 07.27.17

Eric Rodenbeck interviews Kai Chang and Alec Burch about their latest work with the World Health Organization Eric Rodenbeck, Kai Chang, & Alec Burch Eric Rodenbeck: I’m here with Kai Chang and Alec Burch. We’re here talking about our most recent work with the World Health Organization. We’ve worked with them before. Kai Chang: We...

Announcing Penny, a playful AI that explores wealth and poverty in American cities

| 06.27.17

http://penny.digitalglobe.com There’s an artificial intelligence in the sky that is working on predicting your household income just by looking down at your house from space. “Penny,” as this AI is playfully called, was built by us, with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (one of them is Aman Tiwari and he is our intern this summer),...

Big Glass Microphone is a data visualization of a 5km long fiber optic cable buried underneath Stanford University for the V&A.

| 05.15.17

We’re excited to announce Big Glass Microphone, a collaboration between Stamen Design and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Yesssssssss! Infrastructure is all around us. Some we can see, like roads, and some we can’t, like radio waves. Big Glass Microphone looks at the intersection between these two kinds of infrastructure by visualizing the vibrations in...

The Blue Greenway: making maps of San Francisco’s fast-changing southeastern waterfront landscapes…

| 11.03.16

The Blue Greenway map The San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA) began the Blue Greenway project back in June of 2004 with a simple goal in mind: to envision a 13-mile greenway/waterway network along San Francisco’s southeastern waterfront. The Blue Greenway will complete San Francisco’s portion of the Bay Trail, increase public interest and enjoyment of...

The Shapes of Emotions

| 07.27.16

One of the core visualizations in the Atlas of Emotions shows the range of states of each of the 5 emotions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and enjoyment). For example, annoyance, argumentativeness, and fury are all states of anger. But, the states vary quite a bit in terms of their intensity: annoyance is relatively mild, fury...