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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.

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And then there were twelveEric Rodenbeck@stamen#EYEO2014

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And then there were twelveEric Rodenbeck@stamen#EYEO2014

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1. It’s been a weird year

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The market is changing

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VCs are hiring designers in-house

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Apple is hiring people from small firms like Stamen

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It’s not working

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Everything you do is being harvested

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Traffic & round trip times

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The Internet of Things is for suckers

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The Internet of ThingsAmbient Incidental Fucking Internet of Everything

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This is just getting started

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Data visualization is going to have more to say

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

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2. Stamen keeps changing too

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2004year 2

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2006year 4

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2014year 13

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How do tinkerers thrive in the mainstream?

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3. Why I’m doing this

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Data visualization opens up new doors

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collapses time into a few frames

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and expands our ideas of what being in the world is

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Crowdsourcing maps of private transit networks

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Figuring out new ways to map the world

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Mapping other worlds

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4. Hacking into the mainstream

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it’s getting easier to make maps

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Stamen example 1: Maps From Scratch

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Stamen example 2: mapstack.stamen.com

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Stamen example 3: maptime.io

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Atlanta @maptimeATLAustin @maptimeATXBoston @maptimeBostonChattanooga @maptimeCHACleveland @opengeoCLE Lexington @maptimeLEXCape Cod, Maine @maptimeMENew York @maptimeNYCOakland @maptimeOAKPortland @maptimePDXSalt Lake City @maptimeSLCSan Francisco @maptime SFSt. Johns, OR @maptimeStJohnsToronto @maptimeTOWashington DC @maptimeDCWindsor-Essex @maptimeWindsor

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

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looking at early photography is instructive

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mostly nerds doing itit’s alot about the techwhat’s in? what’s out?

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“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.”

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“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.”

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

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the view from here

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

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It’s going to happen quicker than we think

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5. Sustainable business model for visualizers

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and then there were twelve*

*(ok 14)

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It can’t be just about the $

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This can be confusing

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They don’t teach this shit in data visualization school

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Things I have learned:

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a. Someone has to own 51%

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b. Invest in operations earlier than you want to

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This is Bill

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c. People leave

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This is me and Mike

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This is Seth

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

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d. People over process every time

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e. Fire early, fire often

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(these will be your friends)

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f. Someone’s going to have to stop coding

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g. Designers & coders make terrible managers

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h. Pay it forward & engage community

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6. This will eat your head. Business is personal

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People leaveMoney can be tightClients can be a dragDemons in your headUncertain future

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When everything stopped

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Past. Future.

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7. Why I’m still here

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The reveal, of objects to think with

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Climate Central

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The future

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Independent practitioners

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Aha! moments

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Thank you EYEOOnwards!@stamen