These are some examples of our data visualization projects. We take complex information and turn it into beautiful interactive visuals that help people understand the world better. Very often, our clients come to us when they’ve taken their data communications as far as they can with their existing capabilities, and are looking to take this further. We are very comfortable playing this role for our clients: taking their existing skill sets, capabilities, tools, further than they can with the platforms that they are already using.

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Brain Cartography for UCSF

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

Where Seva works to restore vision globally

Stamen created a lightweight interface highlighting the global impact of Seva, a nonprofit eye care organization that works with local communities around the world to develop self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight. The interface ...

Building a data platform for Natural Capital Project

The Natural Capital Project came to Stamen to help design a data hub with the goal of creating a navigable and open-access resource built on CKAN to support sustainable decision-making. Additionally, the data hub su...

Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles for The Getty

We designed a digital publication experience focused around scholarly work pertaining to the processes of archiving at the Getty Museum. From a cohesive overall design system for the publication itself, to co-authoring essays to be published withi...

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....

Redesigning the Distressed Communities Index

Economic Innovation Group (EIG) approached Stamen with the goal to redesign their renowned Distressed Communities Index (DCI). The index categorizes zip codes, counties, cities, districts, and st...

Mapping crop potential in a changing climate

Stamen Design collaborated with Earth Genome in efforts to create a data-driven product in support of the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils. The ...

Transportation data portal design for Cambridge Systematics

Cambridge Systematics came to Stamen to help them redesign their data portal and dashboards for analyzing movement patterns. They wanted help streamlining their workflow creating dashboards of transportation data fo...

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...