These are some examples of our data visualization projects. We take complex information and turn it into beautiful interactive pictures that help people understand the world better.

work/Data Visualization

MoMA’s Talk to Me Exhibit

We were pleased to be featured in a second design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Talk To Me, curated by Paola Antonelli. Our team had two pieces in the exhibit: prettymaps, an open data yellow-and-green smorgasbord...

SFMoMA Artscope

This map shows, in one view, everything in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection. Stamen used interactive mapping technology but applied it to a map of the collection itself. What we made The pro...

Airbnb

We designed a set of maps for Airbnb, showing the explosive growth of the service from the time it started in 2008 to 2011. The first visualization represents Airbnb’s top 50 markets. The thickness of the lines corresponds to the relative volume...

Nike Grid

“What’s particularly cool about the competition is the GRID website, where Nike not only tallies scores but is also serving up visualizations of the race. Since it’s collecting data all the time—every time a competitor makes a call fro...

Pretty Maps

Prettymaps is an experimental, interactive map composed of multiple freely available, community-generated data sources: All the Flickr shapefiles rendered as a...

MTV Music Awards Twitter Visualizations

We worked with MTV on a series of live visualizations of realtime Twitter data. The effort started with the 2009 Video Music Awards, and was extended to multiple other simultaneous ...

MSNBC Hurricane Maps

An interactive hurricane tracker, built with MSNBC’s Paige West to track major storms. The project allowed for interactive investigation of both live and historical hurricane paths,...

Cabspotting

Among the first uses of realtime data in a visualization of any kind on the web, Cabspotting was shown in the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, wa...

Visualizing color with Adobe Kuler

Visualizations of the use of color in Adobe’s product suites, as tracked by Kuler.

Digg Labs

Digg.com was, for a time, one of the most-visited sites on the internet. The site’s ever-changing content, all submitted by members, provides a vivid window onto what was interesting online, ...