Official Title: And then there were Twelve Museum Title: When Data Visualization Grows Up Vernacular Title: Lessons from 14 years in the salt mines: What I’ve learned going bankrupt twice, losing my daughter, and firing half my staff.

1. And then there were twelve
Eric Rodenbeck
@stamen
#EYEO2014

2. And then there were twelve
Eric Rodenbeck
@stamen
#EYEO2014

3. 1. It’s been a weird year

4. The market is changing

5. VCs are hiring designers in-house

6. Apple is hiring people from small firms like Stamen

7. It’s not working

8. Everything you do is being harvested

9. Traffic & round trip times

10. The Internet of Things is for suckers

11. The Internet of Things
Ambient Incidental Fucking Internet of Everything

12. This is just getting started

13. Data visualization is going to have more to say

14. Things are weird, but we’ll have jobs! Whee!

15. 2. Stamen keeps changing too

16. 2004
year 2

17. 2006
year 4

18. 2014
year 13

19. How do tinkerers thrive in the mainstream?

20. 3. Why I’m doing this

21. Data visualization opens up new doors

22. collapses time into a few frames

23. and expands our ideas of what being in the world is

27. Crowdsourcing maps of private transit networks

44. Figuring out new ways to map the world

48. Mapping other worlds

52. 4. Hacking into the mainstream

53. it’s getting easier to make maps

54. Stamen example 1: Maps From Scratch

56. Stamen example 2: mapstack.stamen.com

61. Stamen example 3: maptime.io

66. Atlanta @maptimeATL
Austin @maptimeATX
Boston @maptimeBoston
Chattanooga @maptimeCHA
Cleveland @opengeoCLE
Lexington @maptimeLEX
Cape Cod, Maine @maptimeME
New York @maptimeNYC
Oakland @maptimeOAK
Portland @maptimePDX
Salt Lake City @maptimeSLC
San Francisco @maptime SF
St. Johns, OR @maptimeStJohns
Toronto @maptimeTO
Washington DC @maptimeDC
Windsor-Essex @maptimeWindsor

67. It’s getting easier to do, and we need to be ready

68. looking at early photography is instructive

69. mostly nerds doing it
it’s alot about the tech
what’s in? what’s out?

70. “The members of Group f/64 believe that
photography, as an art form, must develop
along lines defined by the actualities and
limitations of the photographic medium, and
must always remain independent of ideological
conventions of art and aesthetics that are
reminiscent of a period and culture antedating
the growth of the medium itself.”

71. “The members of Stamen believe that data
visualization, as an art form, must develop
along lines defined by the actualities and
limitations of the data visualization medium,
and must always remain independent of
ideological conventions of art and aesthetics
that are reminiscent of a period and culture
antedating the growth of the medium itself.”

72. It’s getting easier to do, and we need to be ready

73. the view from here

77. It’s getting more popular, and we need to be ready

78. It’s going to happen quicker than we think

79. 5. Sustainable business model for visualizers

80. and then there were twelve*
*(ok 14)

81. It can’t be just about the $

82. This can be confusing

83. They don’t teach this shit in data visualization school

84. Things I have learned:

85. a. Someone has to own 51%

86. b. Invest in operations earlier than you want to

87. This is Bill

88. c. People leave

89. This is me and Mike

90. This is Seth

91. (there are lots more people who can do this now)

92. http://stamen.com/studio/alumni

93. d. People over process every time

94. e. Fire early, fire often

95. (these will be your friends)

96. f. Someone’s going to have to stop coding

97. g. Designers & coders make terrible managers

98. h. Pay it forward & engage community

99. 6. This will eat your head. Business is personal

100. People leave
Money can be tight
Clients can be a drag
Demons in your head
Uncertain future

101. When everything stopped

102. Past. Future.

103. 7. Why I’m still here

104. The reveal, of objects to think with

105. Climate Central

117. The future

118. Independent practitioners

119. Aha! moments

120. Thank you EYEO
Onwards!
@stamen