Stanford University
CESTA

This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Project Steel Beta
In summer 2008, the Spatial History Lab began developing this web-based visualization tool for spatio-temporal data. This effort combines the robust local data management capacities of geographic databases with the rich, distributed, interactive realm of the web. The tool intends to provide support for both exploratory and presentational visualization. Users can combine data from different databases in a common geographic framework and projection, modify symbolization to examine attribute patterns, manipulate a timeline to explore temporal trends, and examine linked data visualizations to examine relationships between variables.



Demo Page of Project Steel Beta

Former Research Assistants:
Peter Shannon, Lucas Manfield, Chester Harvey

Spatial History