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Stamen:
Every now and again I stumble over Stamen, and my shiny-shiny gene
goes into gear. Stamen is a design and technology firm in San
Francisco that over the past few years has worked on a number of
inspiring projects blending disparate fields and blurring their
boundaries. As they put it, "Experimental and client work have a way
of feeding into one another: the crossover process enriches both.
Stamen doesn't believe in a clear separation between ideas and
technology, or between client work and research work."
One foundational element that seems common to much of their work is
data visualization. A lot of their dataviz work connects to maps (the
original dataviz!). A couple of their recent map projects include
PolyMaps and PrettyMaps. Older projects/clients with mapping
components include Walking Papers (navigation), Crimespotting, Hope
for Haiti, Cloudmade Maps, Hurricane Maps, Cabspotting, TravelTime,
and more. You can see the range immediately, just from titles!
PolyMaps:
"Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive
maps in modern web browsers." PolyMaps is available for download in
both Zip and GIT file formats. It can incorporate data from
OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing, and can be formatted with CSS.
PrettyMaps:
"It is an interactive map composed of multiple freely available,
community-generated data sources:
- All the Flickr shapefiles rendered as a semi-transparent white
ground on top of which all the other layers are displayed.
- Urban areas from Natural Earth both as a standalone layer and
combined with Flickr shapefiles for cities and neighbourhoods.
- Road, highway and path data collected by the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. ...
prettymaps operates very much at the edge of what the current crop of
web browsers are comfortable doing."
Social media is another theme they've worked with. Eddy is a new
Twitter visualization product from them, with earlier models or
prototypes ranging from the NBA Playoffs on Twitter through various
Flickr and Digg mashups and designs.
Eddy:
Eddy is a high-priced big-ticket product Stamen has created to "build
custom Twitter experiences quickly with simple powerful tools." It can
be used for metrics and tracking or for creating realtime interactive
audience experiences for live events. One of the barriers to
integrating Twitter on screen in live events is the possibility of
your hashtag stream being hijacked by spammers. Eddy gives you ways to
filter, control, manage, and block certain keywords in real time. It
doesn't just scroll the stream, but also provides a variety of
visualizations for your onscreen stream in what I am guessing is in a
Digg-like fashion, and thus much more engaging than most of the
Twitter visualization tools available for free.
Stamen has worked in so many areas and applied such a powerful
combination of creativity and content, that I could go on for a very
long time about how and why they inspire me.
You can find more about their work in their Everything section and
their Projects page.
Stamen: Everything:
Stamen: Projects:
I am going to choose just one (and oh, my, that was a hard choice!) to
discuss a little more.
Stamen: Books:
AND
Stamen has been pondering the boundaries and design of conventional
books, personal notebooks, and e-books with an eye toward trying to
create a vision for the future that incorporates the best of all of
these. What they say is:
"There’s a fluidity to digital media that’s intensely satisfying: a
sense of almost infinite malleability, multiple versions, code
proliferating across multiple variations, pieces that are different
every time you look at them... but sometimes it can get a bit
overwhelming. While we strive for a kind of engagement with
physicality in the rest of our work, there are limits to digital
media’s ability to leave anything lasting behind. It’s for limits like
this that notebooks are useful—they get filled with the physical
traces of the world instead of manipulation of the world behind the
screen. This work is not so much an antidote for a missing physicality
as it is a complement to the screen, and often a source for more
digital investigations."
What they do is to provide images that show what they imagine might be
possible. Or perhaps the images are actually generated from some
mysterious system they have yet to share with the rest of us. I don't
know. I do know that on our campus there is an initiative to imagine
alternative online textbook formats, and that this collection inspires
me to think very differently about those possibilities.
Print books preserve content in a fixed form. Digital media provide
content in a fluid form. Personal notebooks and printed books provide
space for marginalia, ponderings, explorations, doodling, expansions,
personalization, customization, criticism, carving, snipping,
repurposing, reaction, blending, transforming, connecting and much
much more.
I often sit in meetings next to a woman who seems to need to doodle to
focus and process. Her doodles are delightful visual little graphics,
very artistic and visual. Meanwhile, I am usually taking notes in a
code editor on my computer. Have you ever tried to doodle in an ASCII
editor while taking notes? It's possible, but it sure isn't very easy
and you can't really pay attention to what's going on around you. Not
to mention that there is not much of anything like handwriting in the
digital space. As I look at their images of blended book experiments
and environments, I find myself really longing for a space that allows
me the visual flexibility and personalization of taking notes by hand
on paper with the ability to share, preserve, disseminate, blend,
repurpose from digital environments. Just something to think about.
There is a lot more potential hidden in plain view in their images.
Go, look, ponder, and share YOUR thoughts about what the ideal book
could be like. Next up, adding in 3D visualizations and augmented
reality ...
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
Our GeoDataViz team have been virtually exploring and comparing the landscapes with OS data and created a poster to showcase Great Britain's 78 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and National Scenic Areas (NSAs).
Take a look at the blog: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/07/using-data-to-explo...
Drawn from public databases, these are the mugshots of those listed as "Memphis Most Wanted" by the Commercial Appeal. The images are sorted by offense type.
I seem to be going through a rough patch schedule-wise, which is
interfering with the usual daily Cool Toys posts. So, for this week, here's
a round-up of things I wanted to post this week, and would have posted if I
hadn't needed to sleep.
[image: Inline image 1]
Grid Republic:
Remember the SETI@Home project? Where people gave permission for their
computer power to be shared with the SETI project whenever the screensaver
kicked in? Same idea, but closer to home. Share your computer cycles with
projects for the biological and health sciences, and related topics. My eye
was caught by this example they'd posted.
Areas with low malaria rates 'need mass vaccination':
www.scidev.net/global/systems/news/areas-with-low-malaria...
[image: Inline image 2]
BioArtography:
I'd love this even if it wasn't from the University of Michigan! I've been
a huge fan of beautiful science photography from labs for DECADES. You
don't want to know how excited I get over the Nikon Small World Contest.
But getting my hands on the pictures is a different matter. I beg for the
free calendars my colleagues get from life science suppliers. I wander
through the lab buildings when I have an excuse snapping surreptitious
iPhone pics of pretty postings on the walls. Here, UM is selling prints and
posters and cards (oh my) of gorgeous photographs from campus labs, with
the proceeds going to fund conference travel expenses for grad students and
students, BRILLIANT!!!
[image: Inline image 3]
uChek:
I could not resist. uChek is an app + device to turn your iPhone into a
portable urinalysis lab. How cool is that? More info about other tech uses
for urine in my blogpost over at ETechLib:
Random Round-up: 16 Cool Things Tech is Doing with Pee:
etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/random-round-up-16-cool...
[image: Inline image 4]
The Wait We Carry:
Heart wrenching, beautiful, fascinating data visualization of the stats and
stories of United States Veterans waiting for health care coverage to treat
their injuries and related health and mental health complications. The
dataviz starts and ends with stories, offering a window from the war into
the lives of real soldiers who've returned from the wars. There is an
enormous amount of data, which can be sliced and diced in many ways. Want
to know how your state compares? You can do that. Veterans from Operation
Iraqi Freedom? Yes, you can break the info out by conflict. Both? Sure, why
not. Go, explore.
[image: Inline image 5]
Own A Colour:
Because it's gorgeous, and clever. Own a Colour, developed by Glidden
Paints, is one of the most innovative fundraising apps I've seen. Choose
one of the millions of colors that can be displayed on modern high
resolution monitors, claim it, say why you love it, and donate the funds to
UNICEF.
To celebrate 70 years of the Lake District National Park, our GeoDataViz team have applied new techniques to OS data to create two visualisations.
Created by Professor Alasdair Rae using OS OpenData. Find out more at: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/05/scottish-highlands-...
Our GeoDataViz team have been virtually exploring and comparing the landscapes with OS data and created a poster to showcase Great Britain's 78 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and National Scenic Areas (NSAs).
Take a look at the blog: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/07/using-data-to-explo...
Our GeoDataViz team have been virtually exploring and comparing the landscapes with OS data and created a poster to showcase Great Britain's 78 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and National Scenic Areas (NSAs).
Take a look at the blog: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/07/using-data-to-explo...
I am building a small visualization tool to look at the similarities and differences between two articles published in October about head injuries and the NFL:
"Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas - Oct. 10, 2009
www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200909/nfl-players-brain-demen...
"Offensive Play" by Malcolm Gladwell - Oct. 19, 2009
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_glad...
These are some early outputs from the system.
I am building a small visualization tool to look at the similarities and differences between two articles published in October about head injuries and the NFL:
"Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas - Oct. 10, 2009
www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200909/nfl-players-brain-demen...
"Offensive Play" by Malcolm Gladwell - Oct. 19, 2009
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_glad...
These are some early outputs from the system.
See how it's easier than ever to build maps and analyze spatial data using the latest features in Tableau, join the IoT revolution, and learn how to bring the magic of Kepler GL into Tableau with extensions.
Mapbox SF Office
50 Beale Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Wednesday, April 24 2019
5:30pm
SPEAKERS
Kent Marten, Tableau
Kent is a geographer, with BES from the University of Waterloo, MBA from the University of Redlands, and a GIS diploma from the Centre of Geographic Sciences. Kent has spent his entire career building mapping software products, first for Esri and now for Tableau. This will be Kent’s 7th time speaking at a Tableau User Group event, always about maps.
Shan He, Uber
Shan is a senior data visualization engineer at Uber. She is a coder, a designer, and a data artist. Shan is the founding member of Uber’s data visualization team and creator of kepler.gl
Ryan Baumann, Mapbox
Ryan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He built the first half of his career in product development at Trek Bikes and Caterpillar, before joining as the first Solutions Engineer at Mapbox in 2016. Now he leads a team of 15 solutions engineers that help customers solve complex problems using location intelligence. Outside of work, Ryan is a is a lifelong cyclist and founder of the athletics design website Athletedataviz. This is his third time speaking at a Tableau User Group event.
Chris DeMartini, Visa
Chris DeMartini came to the Tableau community through his work in network graphing. He has focused on incorporating dynamic aspects to his visualizations as well as working with the Tableau JS API, often blogging about these techniques on DataBlick. Some of his past work includes the likes of jump plots, hive plots, and even his family tree.
--- About Mapbox ---
Mapbox is a live location data platform for mobile and web applications and experiences. Anyone can use Mapbox APIs and SDKs to build live, fully customized interactive maps, game environments, navigation experiences, and data visualizations for consumer apps, business intelligence and logistics platforms, on-demand services, asset tracking, and more. Add your own data layers and build now for web, iOS, Android, Unity 3D, and Qt.
Start building today: www.mapbox.com
See how it's easier than ever to build maps and analyze spatial data using the latest features in Tableau, join the IoT revolution, and learn how to bring the magic of Kepler GL into Tableau with extensions.
Mapbox SF Office
50 Beale Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Wednesday, April 24 2019
5:30pm
SPEAKERS
Kent Marten, Tableau
Kent is a geographer, with BES from the University of Waterloo, MBA from the University of Redlands, and a GIS diploma from the Centre of Geographic Sciences. Kent has spent his entire career building mapping software products, first for Esri and now for Tableau. This will be Kent’s 7th time speaking at a Tableau User Group event, always about maps.
Shan He, Uber
Shan is a senior data visualization engineer at Uber. She is a coder, a designer, and a data artist. Shan is the founding member of Uber’s data visualization team and creator of kepler.gl
Ryan Baumann, Mapbox
Ryan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He built the first half of his career in product development at Trek Bikes and Caterpillar, before joining as the first Solutions Engineer at Mapbox in 2016. Now he leads a team of 15 solutions engineers that help customers solve complex problems using location intelligence. Outside of work, Ryan is a is a lifelong cyclist and founder of the athletics design website Athletedataviz. This is his third time speaking at a Tableau User Group event.
Chris DeMartini, Visa
Chris DeMartini came to the Tableau community through his work in network graphing. He has focused on incorporating dynamic aspects to his visualizations as well as working with the Tableau JS API, often blogging about these techniques on DataBlick. Some of his past work includes the likes of jump plots, hive plots, and even his family tree.
--- About Mapbox ---
Mapbox is a live location data platform for mobile and web applications and experiences. Anyone can use Mapbox APIs and SDKs to build live, fully customized interactive maps, game environments, navigation experiences, and data visualizations for consumer apps, business intelligence and logistics platforms, on-demand services, asset tracking, and more. Add your own data layers and build now for web, iOS, Android, Unity 3D, and Qt.
Start building today: www.mapbox.com
Our GeoDataViz team have been virtually exploring and comparing the landscapes with OS data and created a poster to showcase Great Britain's 78 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and National Scenic Areas (NSAs).
Take a look at the blog: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/07/using-data-to-explo...
Full graphic. Every franchise history, over 5,000 data points.
To purchase a print, go here: shop.infojocks.com/products/nhl-graphic-history
Created by Professor Alasdair Rae using OS OpenData. Find out more at: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/05/scottish-highlands-...
See how it's easier than ever to build maps and analyze spatial data using the latest features in Tableau, join the IoT revolution, and learn how to bring the magic of Kepler GL into Tableau with extensions.
Mapbox SF Office
50 Beale Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Wednesday, April 24 2019
5:30pm
SPEAKERS
Kent Marten, Tableau
Kent is a geographer, with BES from the University of Waterloo, MBA from the University of Redlands, and a GIS diploma from the Centre of Geographic Sciences. Kent has spent his entire career building mapping software products, first for Esri and now for Tableau. This will be Kent’s 7th time speaking at a Tableau User Group event, always about maps.
Shan He, Uber
Shan is a senior data visualization engineer at Uber. She is a coder, a designer, and a data artist. Shan is the founding member of Uber’s data visualization team and creator of kepler.gl
Ryan Baumann, Mapbox
Ryan has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He built the first half of his career in product development at Trek Bikes and Caterpillar, before joining as the first Solutions Engineer at Mapbox in 2016. Now he leads a team of 15 solutions engineers that help customers solve complex problems using location intelligence. Outside of work, Ryan is a is a lifelong cyclist and founder of the athletics design website Athletedataviz. This is his third time speaking at a Tableau User Group event.
Chris DeMartini, Visa
Chris DeMartini came to the Tableau community through his work in network graphing. He has focused on incorporating dynamic aspects to his visualizations as well as working with the Tableau JS API, often blogging about these techniques on DataBlick. Some of his past work includes the likes of jump plots, hive plots, and even his family tree.
--- About Mapbox ---
Mapbox is a live location data platform for mobile and web applications and experiences. Anyone can use Mapbox APIs and SDKs to build live, fully customized interactive maps, game environments, navigation experiences, and data visualizations for consumer apps, business intelligence and logistics platforms, on-demand services, asset tracking, and more. Add your own data layers and build now for web, iOS, Android, Unity 3D, and Qt.
Start building today: www.mapbox.com
Our GeoDataViz team have been virtually exploring and comparing the landscapes with OS data and created a poster to showcase Great Britain's 78 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and National Scenic Areas (NSAs).
Take a look at the blog: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/07/using-data-to-explo...
Earlier this week, the UK's Met Office released a data set containing 1,600,000+ temperature readings from more than 1,700 stations around the globe.
This graphic shows an individual month's readings throughout the entire data set (i.e. every measurement from January of every year).
The newest readings are at the edge of the circle - the oldest are at the center.
The stations are arranged by latitude - 3 o'clock is the poles and 9 o'clock is the equator.
This graphic is not meant to convey much information - it is mainly a way to get a sense of the scope of the data set.
I seem to be going through a rough patch schedule-wise, which is
interfering with the usual daily Cool Toys posts. So, for this week, here's
a round-up of things I wanted to post this week, and would have posted if I
hadn't needed to sleep.
[image: Inline image 1]
Grid Republic:
Remember the SETI@Home project? Where people gave permission for their
computer power to be shared with the SETI project whenever the screensaver
kicked in? Same idea, but closer to home. Share your computer cycles with
projects for the biological and health sciences, and related topics. My eye
was caught by this example they'd posted.
Areas with low malaria rates 'need mass vaccination':
www.scidev.net/global/systems/news/areas-with-low-malaria...
[image: Inline image 2]
BioArtography:
I'd love this even if it wasn't from the University of Michigan! I've been
a huge fan of beautiful science photography from labs for DECADES. You
don't want to know how excited I get over the Nikon Small World Contest.
But getting my hands on the pictures is a different matter. I beg for the
free calendars my colleagues get from life science suppliers. I wander
through the lab buildings when I have an excuse snapping surreptitious
iPhone pics of pretty postings on the walls. Here, UM is selling prints and
posters and cards (oh my) of gorgeous photographs from campus labs, with
the proceeds going to fund conference travel expenses for grad students and
students, BRILLIANT!!!
[image: Inline image 3]
uChek:
I could not resist. uChek is an app + device to turn your iPhone into a
portable urinalysis lab. How cool is that? More info about other tech uses
for urine in my blogpost over at ETechLib:
Random Round-up: 16 Cool Things Tech is Doing with Pee:
etechlib.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/random-round-up-16-cool...
[image: Inline image 4]
The Wait We Carry:
Heart wrenching, beautiful, fascinating data visualization of the stats and
stories of United States Veterans waiting for health care coverage to treat
their injuries and related health and mental health complications. The
dataviz starts and ends with stories, offering a window from the war into
the lives of real soldiers who've returned from the wars. There is an
enormous amount of data, which can be sliced and diced in many ways. Want
to know how your state compares? You can do that. Veterans from Operation
Iraqi Freedom? Yes, you can break the info out by conflict. Both? Sure, why
not. Go, explore.
[image: Inline image 5]
Own A Colour:
Because it's gorgeous, and clever. Own a Colour, developed by Glidden
Paints, is one of the most innovative fundraising apps I've seen. Choose
one of the millions of colors that can be displayed on modern high
resolution monitors, claim it, say why you love it, and donate the funds to
UNICEF.
I am building a small visualization tool to look at the similarities and differences between two articles published in October about head injuries and the NFL:
"Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas - Oct. 10, 2009
www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200909/nfl-players-brain-demen...
"Offensive Play" by Malcolm Gladwell - Oct. 19, 2009
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_glad...
These are some early outputs from the system.
Created by Professor Alasdair Rae using OS OpenData. Find out more at: www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2020/05/scottish-highlands-...
We celebrated Adam’s birthday in style in uptown Oakland, across from the historic Fox Theater. We dined at Duende (spanish for ‘passion’), feasting on tasty tapas and paellas with with him Dani and Phyllis. Phyllis gave him a lovely handmade birthday card showing him as a dataviz priest with rings of digital bits. And I gave him ‘Unflattening’, an inspiring comic book on how we construct knowledge through multiple viewpoints.
Adam has grown into a fine young man over the years, which makes me very happy. He’s developed just the right mix of passion and reason -- and he’s an inspiration to me. I hope he can keep following his bliss in the next chapter of his life. Joyeux anniversaire, Adam!
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
UCD w/2 degrees of separation (Wikipedia-based). It's a fancy circle map. Big whoop - what's the story? This doesn't work... it just looks good. Made using yED graphing software and a graphml-based concept listing.
ps: I not a fan of the phrase UCD (user centered design). How about just Design or Product Design or UI Design?