Our work
Octophin build interactive maps, apps, websites, community platforms and databases solely for the environment conservation, arts and heritage sectors.
We have world-leading knowledge on interactive mapping of all aspects of the natural world and its sustainable communities (from seafood to forestry), and have spoken on building maps for good at
several international conferences. We have built many collaborative databases of wildlife sightings, green spaces, sustainable seafood, recipes and more, and manage a community platform and wiki for conservation technologists and a citizen science wildife identification gaming platform both with thousands of active members.
On the arts side of our work we have worked on big data projects (demographic mapping, dashboard building) for Arts Council England via The Audience Agency and Artsadmin for many years, built the website for real world adventure games company HiddenCity (recently made an official partner of the 007 James Bond brand), built interactive maps and artist databases for the Crouch End Open Studios events and worked with Newham Council on digitisation projects for their new heritage centre.

TerrAdapt geospatial analysis and reporting dashboard
Visualising projections of changes in natural environments

Interactive map, dashboard and portal for 400 years of UK sturgeon sightings
We worked with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to visualise 400 years of historic sturgeon sightings in the UK.

The Audience Agency - Multi-site system and three websites
We worked with The Audience Agency to build three interlinked websites each with their own urls, theme but sharing a server and some content.

Key Biodiversity Areas factsheets scraper, archive and backup system
We worked with the Key Biodiversity Areas team at Birdlife International to build a scraper of their World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas

Booking Behaviour Report
Giving monthly insights into the timing, frequency, proportion of first time visitors and group dynamics of arts organisation bookings.

Global Safety Net map
We built a globe-view interactive map for One Earth's Global Safety Net project featuring more than a dozen categorised raster and vector layers and data queries mapped to a user selectable view of countries, ecoregions, bioregions and states.

WILDLABS Inventory
The Inventory is a collaborative encyclopedia (wiki) of conservation technology and part of the WILDLABS.NET conservation technology community platform.

Interactive map of UK arts demographics
We used the Audience Agency's database of millions of (anonymised) bookers, placed into demographic categories using their Audience Spectrum system to plot the data onto an interactive map.

Seabird Flyways
We worked with BirdLife International on a project visualising their project on the "Six Major Bird 'Super Highways'.

WILDLABS.NET
WILDLABS is a conservation technology community platform featuring discussion forums, community groups, instant messages, community sourced listings for events, jobs and funding opportunities and articles.

RAF Museum interactive touchscreen kiosk and archive database
Converting word documents and images into an interactive museum kiosk at RAF Museum.

Seabird Tracking Database
We built a new version of the collaborative Seabird Tracking Database for Birdlife International.

Food for the Brain website, membership system and Cognitive Function Test
We worked with the Food for the Brain Foundation, a mental health nutrition charity, to redesign and rebuild their website and their scientifically validated Cognitive Function Test.

NUS - RecycleLeague pilot
We built a data visualisation showing live weekly recycling rates of various competing universities and other institutions.

HiddenCity (real-world adventure games) website, team editor and booking system
A beautiful and engaging new website that integrates with their booking system, game progress, team editing and creation, leaderboards and more for HiddenCity.

ZSL Donations, Patrons and Fellowship System
A highly customisable WordPress-based system for donations and membership.

Fauna & Flora International - donations system support
We worked with Fauna & Flora International on creating better integration between their CRM system and donations payment gateway.

Chagos Information Portal - Tracking Map of Red Footed Booby Expedition
We animated and visualised the first tracking data from seabird species from the Chagos Archipelago. journey.

Artsadmin Room Bookings system
A room booking, staff management and equipment and catering system

Chagos Information Portal - Interactive Timeline
An interactive timeline of expeditions

Colchester Zoo online shop
Drupal Commerce ecommerce website for one of the UK’s largest zoos.

Interactive War Memorial for Find My Past
A viral social media campaign for leading geneology website.

eHarmony - Dating profile text analyser "Language of Love"
Dating profile analyser based on research into successful profile keywords for men and women.

The Top Secret Comedy Club website
A stylish WordPress site for the UK’s most highly-rated comedy club.

UK Heartbeat - Live Twitter visualisation and analysis for eHarmony
An Interactive Twitter multi level visualisation dashboard for the word “love”

eHarmony - The Future of Dating interactive report
Communicating the findings of a report by relationship site eHarmony and Imperial Business College into what dating will be like by the year 2040 in a consumer-friendly and shareable way.