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Oakland Crimespotting

sensescape — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:18:33 +0000

I’ve been helping Mike and Tom with some new improvements on Oakland Crimespotting. We’ve added a new feature for filtering crime by time of day. We’ve been calling this new feature the “time pie”! The time pie shows a 24 hour period and allows the user to select time segments of commute hours, nightlife hours and police shifts. Sunrise and sunsets hours are also indicated. The user may also select specific hours by dragging thru the time pie. The date slider on the map has also been updated with the ability to page forward and backward through time for data since summer of 2007.

We’ve also switched the map to Pale Dawn, the map style we created for Cloudmade early this year. This map style was created specifically for data overlay.

Read more about the new features:
Oakland Crimespotting update: the pie of time, Stamen
Historical Hurricanes and Oakland Crime, Tom
oakland crime maps XII: the pie of time, Mike

MSNBC Historical Hurricane Maps

sensescape — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:45:55 +0000

Catching up on all the new work that launched recently! Here’s another hurricane piece we did for MSNBC displaying historical hurricane data since 1851. The map has several ways of filtering and viewing hurricane paths, with sliders for time, hurricane strength and landfall location. Learn more about the project from Eric and Tom’s blog posts.

California Academy of Sciences

sensescape — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:38:32 +0000

Explore the new California Academy of Sciences space in Golden Gate Park with our new map. The new Academy building was designed by Renzo Piano. The new structure has been applauded as the world’s greenest museum space, earning a platinum rating for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). It houses a 4-story rainforest, aquarium, planetarium, a living roof and more.

The Academy Exhibit Map conveys the fluidity of the unique museum space from water to sky, showing transitions from the lower levels of the Philippine Coral Reef to the top level of the Living Roof. Explore the exhibits, plan your visit or get to know the space.

Designed and built by Stamen in collaboration with the Interactive Media Group at the California Academy of Sciences.

SFMOMA ArtScope

sensescape — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:01:48 +0000

Check out the latest from Stamen: The SFMOMA ArtScope. The SFMOMA ArtScope is a visual browsing tool featuring more than 3,500 objects from the SFMOMA art collection. The visual map is a fun way to explore and learn about artists and artworks.
http://sfmoma.org/pages/artscope

Trulia Snapshot

sensescape — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:54:39 +0000

Trulia Snapshot just launched! Snapshot is another visualization tool built by Stamen for the real estate search engine Trulia. Tom Carden and Ryan Alexander built the amazing interface. I worked on design. Snapshot is a real estate image browser. It shows an alternate magazine-like view of Trulia’s image data of homes all over the U.S.. It is now part of Trulia’s growing list of visualization tools, featured in a new section called TruliaExplore. Trulia Hindsight is also featured here.
-Geraldine