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Stamen
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Stamen is the company blog at stamen.com, writing about design and data. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “The Many Lives of Null Island”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Stamen Design's site as a showcase of data visualization and design projects, including maps, Digg Labs, Quokka sites, and San Francisco private shuttle transit work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
More than 20 years of building impactful, award-winning visualizations and custom data viz tools. Recipient of National Interaction Design Award from the Smithsonian.
Most-linked posts?
- The Many Lives of Null Island3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-24
- The City from the Valley - private bus routes SF to South Bay3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Based on Stamen Design's Splatter https://stamen.com/splatter-now-re-available-for-download-15... https://github.com/stamen/splatter
Comment linking /splatter-now-re-available-for-download-1584036b9315/
on “Jacksonpollock.org (2003)”Submitted The Many Lives of Null Island as a story · 99 points
HN discussionThose visualizations were built by Stamen Design, a company that still creates really cool stuff today. http://stamen.com/
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on “Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent”Submitted The City from the Valley - private bus routes SF to South Bay as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI agree with a lot of what you're saying. I think one issue is actually Silicon Valley's model of "disruption" — ie new solutions replace old ones. For example, instead of fixing public transit in San Francisco (or SF -> SV) we now have all of these new private infrastructures for transit within SF (Uber, Lyft, Cabulous, etc) and SF -> SV (all those shuttles, see: http://stamen.com/zero1/ ). What happens then is tha…
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on “Silicon Valley's Problem”Submitted Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization as a story · 90 points
HN discussionA marketing problem with OpenStreetMap is that people used to Google maps where you get some .png tiles and that's it assume that OpenStreetMap is the same kind of thing. Note that the OSM say "We make beautiful maps", that's map s plural, not "a beautiful map". The project is primarily about the underlying data, not any particular end product. They have vector and bitmap outputs, 2D and 3D, digital and printed, up-…
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on “Google Maps, Bing Maps, & Yahoo Maps: Cartographic Design Differences”Submitted Stamen is looking for a developer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt's an interesting experiment. If it succeeds, it would be ironic that the solution to America's public transportation is coming from Detroit: after all, GM & co are the guys who bought America's trolleys in the 1950's and disassembled them to boost sales of cars. EDIT: related story on SF's private lines http://stamen.com/zero1/
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on “A Private Bus Company Debuts in Detroit”Submitted Down in the Sewers Tracking Viruses with WastewaterSCAN as a story · 3 points
HN discussionQuokka did some really amazing sites back in the day: http://stamen.com/clients/quokka I seem to recall them doing motorsports with tons of live data including biometrics of some of the drivers. Heart rate, etc. I spent the dotcom boom years working for a sports startup that was initially called Pangolin during it's prelaunch phase. I assumed that was a homage to Quokka. Pangolin rebranded itself as Sportal before l…
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on “Flask powered CMS - Quokka”Submitted Maps of Airbnb growth over time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminds me of some old (2006) Digg Labs experiments by Stamen Designs: http://stamen.com/clients/digg Too bad labs.digg.com has been taken down by now...
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on “Visualization of Reddit votes and comments in realtime”Submitted Our Brilliant Friend: Stamen and OpenStreetMap Through the Years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe data visualization realm might be something for you. Take a look at Stamen Design for inspiration ( http://stamen.com ). There is so much more interesting data than maps and Flickr photos out there, from government data to the data that New York City makes available, to Twitter streams or Facebooks social graph, etc. Take a look at this list of popular APIs on programmable web for some inspiration - http://www.p…
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on “Ask HN: How do I come up with an idea?”Submitted Cartographers Play Video Games – A Review of the Map in the Legend of Zelda TOTK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helvetica is more than a font, it's a state of mind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Atlas of Disappearing Places as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Many Lives of Null Island as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Many Lives of Null Island as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Here comes the future of Stamen Maps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Glass Microphone Stamen Design as a story · 1 points
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