work/Product Design

From early 2020 through 2023 Lyft partnered with Stamen to design and implement their first custom maps for their riders and driver. Stamen worked with Lyft’s product designers and researchers to understand the unique needs of their users wh...

CrisisReady, a research collaboration between the Harvard Data Science Initiative and Direct Relief, aims to advance data-driven decision making in emergency scenarios. They work with emergency and disaster response...

Broadbandmap.gov collected internet connection data across the US. Funded by the FCC, the project let viewers compare connection type, actual speeds versus those advertised, availability compared to demographics, and other aspects of their broadba...

It’s been our privilege to work on one of our largest and most ambitious undertakings ever: collaborating closely with a team of Facebook engineers, designers, and data experts to roll out a global, multi-scale base map for all of Facebook’s b...

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 ...

Background In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He ha...

In 2013, the Parks Conservancy reached out to us to help with a new initiative: creating a beautiful map to help more locals (and tourists) get outside and into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the nation’s largest urban national park, ...

Background Developed in partnership with the City Energy Project, these Energy Benchmarking tools are designed to help cities communicate about commercial property energy usage and trends. Launched in 2015 and since customized by specific...

Background The Berggruen Ins...

The ultimate goal of this project — which took place over a very short timeframe as the pandemic began racing across the globe — was to help answer key questions related to COVID-19. How well have physical distancing interventions work...