work/Data Visualization

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

SFMOMA launched the SMS-based service Send Me SFMOMA to great acclaim (it was featured on The Today Show) in 2017. You could send a text message to the museum, and they’d respond with a relevant (and sometimes hilarious) ...

How much art are public school students being exposed to? What kinds of arts programs are available to them across a given metropolitan area? The LA County Arts Commission wanted to give Los Angeles County parents and policy ma...

Our friend Rebecca Solnit asked us to lend our visualization skills to a pressing and dangerous problem: the nature of the relationship between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. We worked ...

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

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 a fi...

Local news site Hoodline asked us to help them tell stories with the amazing data that they’re collecting about the San Francisco. Our first public collaboration working with the team at Hoodline visualized their data on retail vacancies in the ...

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

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...

Facebook Flowers diagrams the viral activity that followed George Takei sharing a picture on Facebook. Each share generates a thread, and follow-on shares continue as extensions of that strand, blooming as the picture is passed from friend to frie...