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Empty City

Empty City” investigates the fractured urbanism of San Francisco, Las Vegas and the road in between. As in our experiences of these places, events occur in fragments, via unexpected juxtapositions, and are often gone before they have fully arriv...

Visualizing Obamacare

ACA 411 was a deceptively simple interface into a rich dataset that covers everything from how many people are uninsured in the San Joaquin Valley (18.1%) to how much a small firm pays for health insurance per person ($7,379). ACA 411 covers more ...

Golden Gate Recreation Area Map

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, ...

Hoodline: Castro Vacancies

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 ...

Toyota i-Road

Stamen worked with the engineers and designers at Toyota on a data visualization project for the Toyota Onramp 2015 event in San Francisco. The Onramp event allowed participants to test drive the Toyota i-Road, a sustainable three-wheel compact ve...

CAST Culture Compass

CAST came to us to help them design and implement an interactive mapping tool that would allow users to identify all of the various art institutions in San Francisco as well as surface key data points such as facility size, own...

Satellite-Image Mural for SPUR

SPUR is a Planning and Urban Research Association based out of San Francisco, with offices in Oakland and San Jose. They asked Stamen to create a satellite image of the Bay Area for the wall of their office to highlight the bre...

UCSF Health Atlas

A team from UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity, led by Dr. Debby Oh, hired us to build an online tool to help researchers explore how our environment influences our health at a local ...

The City from the Valley: Google, Apple, Facebook buses

Historically, workers have lived in residential suburbs while commuting to work in the city. For Silicon Valley, however, the situation is reversed: Many of the largest technology companies are based in suburbs but look to recruit younger knowledg...