stamen design | Diving into ecosystem data with Berkeley’s Ecoengine and interfaces from Stamen
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The #facets along the left side, which are a key part of the underlying database, also give an immediate sense of the scope of the Ecoengine data and allow you to quickly drill into the data even if you’re not sure what to search for at the outset. In the screenshot above, in just a few clicks, we narrowed the scope down to just birds in California with known locations and physical specimens in the collection. At right, the default facets immediately tell you the scope of the available data: mostly in the United States, mostly in California, and predominantly animals.