Cabspotting, always in progress

When the Exploratorium and Scott Snibbe approached us in 2005 to visualize realtime GPS positions of San…

by Eric Rodenbeck

Hindsight, our new project with Trulia, launched a week or so ago. Since then Tom and I have been slowly collecting particularly nice examples of interesting conditions as we find them, and Tom’s been posting some of these on…

Stamen’s Mike Migurski announced today the release of the mapping library that he and Shawn Allen and Darren David have been working on: Modest Maps.

Craig Hartmann and Brian Lee, design partners in Skidmore, Owings and Merril’s San Francisco office, unveiled their proposal for the new Transbay Transit Center and Tower in downtown San Francisco to a…

Amgen: Quokka redux

It lives:

The 2007 Amgen Tour of California started this weekend. It looks like some of my…

As a follow-up to the first visualizations we made of user activity on Digg (posted to the digg blog in 2006), we’ve widened the scope of our visualizations to show an entire day’s worth of digging activity on the site in greater detail. The resulting images, made by…

Our belated apologies to all the people who’ve been asking for the source code for splatter for the last month or so — we upgraded our publishing software and some loose ends never got resolved.

I was first introduced to IBM’s new Manyeyes project when Fernanda Viegas spoke about it at Adaptive Path’s excellent IDEA conference in Seattle back in October. We presented too; it was a “morning of visualization” :) .

I’ve been talking a bit with Eddie Elliott, local designer/technologist and all-around raconteur whose beautiful digitial work predates the web, about Cabspotting lately. We (Stamen) keep meaning to get back to the project and do some new investigation, but something else (i.e. paid…