Tom Carden

Stamen

Tom Carden makes interactive visualisations and maps for Stamen Design in San Francisco. Before that, he wrote passenger flow simulation software for a London-based architecture firm, studied Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation and lectured on Adaptive Architecture and Computation at University College London. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence with Mathematics from the University of Leeds.

Tom is an active member of the community formed around the Processing development environment and runs the Processing Blogs aggregator and Processing Hacks wiki. He was an early contributor and developer on OpenStreetMap and sister project Mapstraction. Tom’s personal weblog Random Etc has featured sketches, thoughts, interactive maps and graphical experiments since 2003.

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Sessions

09:45 Friday, 2007-05-18

You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older, and now you're older still: a talk about time.

Applications Louvre-Palais Royal

Tom Carden (Stamen), Michal Migurski (Stamen)

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Many social websites are based around streams of content and will need robust ways to mine the past. We offer a practical yet fanciful overview of the exploration and navigation of time-series data. Read more.