Stamen ... is establishing a reputation for its expertise in creating compelling interactive design and data visualization projects.

Launched this week: BigSpy, a view onto Digg that graphically maps current interest in Digg stories as a continously flowing river of headlines.

Trace: Time-based mappings of wireless networks in urban environments

Global Business Network

Dominant political dialogue focuses on events that cross US borders; GBN asked us to focus on flows along the borders, and to use data visualization as a way of rendering visible (and intelligible) these otherwise elusive movements.

Digg Swarm

Digg Swarm is a lyrical view of Digg. Stories come in as circles with the title inside of them, and diggers "swarm" around these stories when they digg them. Every time a story gets dugg, it increases in size — so the bigger the story, the more active it is. As people digg more stories, they move from circle to circle, and increase in size. You might see enormous diggers moving quickly from story to story; those seem to be people digging without taking the time to read stories...

Stories that are closer together are being dugg by the same users, and you can roll over stories to see these connections. The thicker the line, the more diggers in common that story has—which starts to suggest connections between stories over time.