In 2002 I was introduced to Stamen Design, a data-driven flash-focused design shop. They were involved in making great non-traditional visually-oriented websites like 16thandMission, Arthropoda Records (my client), GrafittiArcheolory, In The News. More recently Stamen members have been responsible for Mappr, ReBlog, and the irc visualization BackChannel, all the while cranking out high quality work for their paying clients.

[So enough with the blah blah blah get to the fircken' cab thing...]

One such client was the exploratorium who commissioned Stamen to make Cabspotting, a data visualization tool of where cabs have very recently been in San Francisco. I couldn’t link to it before due to bandwidth concerns, but Cabspotting is now very public. As with any Stamen project, there is a lot to explore, but my favorite is the mezmerizing time-lapse loop of the last four hours.