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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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...

Mapping Japanese American internment with Densho

In 2021, Stamen began working with Densho, a nonprofit committed to documenting the oral histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on American soil during WWII. ...

User-friendly GIS for The Wilderness Society

The GIS team at The Wilderness Society (TWS) reached out to Stamen for help to envision and implement a new way of using GIS data that non-technical employees could use. Apart from wanting non-technical users to be ...

Modeling ecosystems with MPG Matrix

Stamen has a fruitful multi-year relationship with MPG, a 15,000 acre ranch in Montana that specializes in habitat restoration and ecological research. MPG and Stamen collaborate with Dean Pearso...

SFMOMA SendMe

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) ...

LA County Arts Commission online arts education tool

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...

Build a Wall Chart with Rebecca Solnit

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 ...

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...

Berkeley’s Ecoengine

Most people know that the University of California at Berkeley is a world-class research university. Some folks have heard of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. But not so many people know that the university houses seven natural history museums w...