Cabspotting: Project Information 

Designer(s) name, nationality, date of birth: 

	Eric Rodenbeck (US, born 1970)
	Michal Migurski (Poland, born 1977)
	Shawn Allen (US, born 1981)
	Tomas Apodaca (US, born 1970)
	Gabriel Dunne (US, born 1981)


Date of the project: 

2005-present


Material/software: 

Flash ActionScript, Processing, Python


Exact form for lender's name or credit line: TK 

Designed and developed by Stamen Design. A project of the San Francisco Exploratorium's Invisible Dynamics initiative. Produced by Peter Richards and Susan Schwartzenberg. Directed by Scott Snivve with the creative consultation of Amy Balkin. Data generously provided by Yellow Cab of San Francisco. Supported by a grant from the National Foundation for the Arts.


Image credits: 

Stamen Design


Brief explanation about the project (200 words max): 

Invisible Dynamics is a research project sponsored by The Exploratorium which explores the meanings and representations of place. Using new technologies for the representation and analysis of spatial information, the project investigates the complexities of the San Francisco Bay Region in the context of the Pacific Rim. The contiguities of bay waters, shores, industrial zones, the interlacing and often unseen systems that give this area its character are all a part of the project focus—extending to explorations of the entire Pacific Rim.
As part of Invisible Dynamics, Stamen has been exploring visualizations of GPS data generated by Yellow Cab taxi cabs in San Francisco. In these frame-by-frame maps of the locations of cabs in the Bay Area, the city ebbs and pulses like the beating of a