About Nathan
My name is Nathan Yau, and I'm the one writing for FlowingData. In a previous life I was an electrical engineering and computer science student at Berkeley, but now I'm a UCLA PhD candidate in statistics with a focus in data visualization.
More specifically, I'm most interested in
- Social data visualization
- Self-surveillance
- Data for non-professionals
In a nutshell, I want to make data available and useful to those who aren't necessarily data experts; I think visualization plays a major role in this.
Here are some of my random experiments with both print and interactive stuff.
When I'm not playing with data, I'm usually cooking, eating, watching basketball, or hanging out with my wife.
Connect
If you'd like to connect with me, I'm on Twitter and del.icio.us pretty much all the time, and I'm always in the FlowingData forums.
Feel free to email me too.
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