We offer online and in-person classes for the community, as well as private, customized workshops in data visualization and web mapping. Not lectures in a big theater — intimate sessions that focus on data visualization as a creative practice.
Stamen has taught data viz and cartography at the Harvard GSD, the University of Michigan, the School of Visual Arts, the Stanford d.school, and at dozens of newsrooms, agencies, and product teams. Our instructors include working cartographers and design technologists — the same people who ship Stamen's client work.
Every workshop is custom-tailored. Bring your data and your ideas; we'll build the curriculum around them.
Small, intimate, hands-on sessions. Online or in-person at our Mission District studio in San Francisco. Bring your data and your ideas for custom-tailored delivery based on your individual needs.
A two-day workshop focused on geospatial data as part of a data visualization interface. Build a solid foundation in web map design principles, and gain hands-on experience working with spatial data in JavaScript.
Learn how to present information effectively using interactive data visualizations. Gain critical data visualization literacy, and gain experience building your own visualizations from scratch.
A focused one-day intensive for journalists, communications teams, and data analysts. How to use a map to tell a story — and when not to.
About 6 community classes per year. We email subscribers a week before public registration opens.
If your company wants to present data effectively and powerfully, or you need in-depth background knowledge about the art and science of data visualization, we offer personalized workshops tailored to your needs. We've run these at Google, Tableau, the Washington Post, Stanford, and dozens more. At your office or at our studio.
30 minutes. Where are you now? What do you wish your team could do? What's the success metric?
We build a 1-, 2-, or 3-day curriculum from your real data and your team's existing skill level.
At your office or our studio. Up to 16 participants per instructor. Hands-on from hour one.
30-day follow-up office hours included. Optional ongoing studio retainer if you want to keep the relationship.
| Client | Format | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| The Washington Post · Graphics desk | 3 days · DC newsroom | Interactive cartography for breaking news |
| Tableau · Design team | 2 days · Seattle HQ | Critique & revision practice for data products |
| Stanford d.school | 1 day · campus | Storytelling with maps for graduate students |
| Harvard GSD | Semester · 14 weeks | "Re-imagining the Archive" (with Nicholas Hayes) |
| Google Earth Engine team | 2 days · Mountain View | Cartographic design for geospatial dashboards |
"By day three, half the room had abandoned their slide-decks and were prototyping in D3. That's the conversion rate we paid for."
Director of Data Journalism, major US newsroom
Every workshop is led by a current Stamen team member who ships client work. You'll be learning from someone who is using these techniques in production this quarter.
Lead Cartographer / Training
Spatial data · web mapping · projections
Lead Cartographer + Designer
Data visualization foundations · D3 · critique
Design Director
Map storytelling · annotation · narrative design
Lead Design Technologist
Engineering for data viz · performance budgets
8–16 participants per instructor. We'll scale up by adding instructors — we've run sessions for 50+ before. Smaller groups get more individual time.
Yes — about half our workshops are now hybrid or fully online. Same hands-on style, just with screen-share critiques.
It depends on the workshop, but typically: D3, Observable Plot, MapLibre, Mapbox GL, vanilla JavaScript, and Python for data prep. We can adapt to your stack.
Full refund up to 14 days before the workshop. 50% from 7-14 days out. After that, we can transfer your seat to a colleague or to a future session.
Yes — for AIGA, AICP, and a few professional bodies. Ask in your inquiry and we'll send the paperwork.
Tell us about your team and your data. We'll send a proposal within the week.