My name is Nathan Yau, and I’m the one writing for FlowingData. I have a PhD in statistics from UCLA, and I’m a statistician. My focus:
- Data for non-professionals
- Information design
- Self-surveillance
In a nutshell, I want to make data available and useful to those who are and 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. I’ve also written a couple of books.
When I’m not playing with data, I’m usually cooking, eating, brewing beer, cycling, watching basketball, or hanging out with my wife and son.
