This document summarizes two projects by Stamen Design called Crimespotting and This Tract. Crimespotting maps crime data to neighborhoods in San Francisco, with the goal of making data publicly accessible. This Tract maps census and other data to small geographic areas called census tracts to allow comparisons between neighborhoods. The document also discusses concepts of data in context, such as local vs distant locations and current vs past time periods. It describes census tracts and tools used by Stamen Design, including those for extracting census data and visualizing information in a web browser.