Nathan Yau

National Geographic went all out on their atlas of moons. Space. Orbits. Rotating…

As you might expect, NASA collects a lot of data, and much of…

The citizenship question for the upcoming Census is still stuck in limbo. One…

Roger Peng provides a lesson on the roots of R and how it…

It’s about purpose. It’s about who your work is for. It’s about what you’re trying to show.

Alfred Ng for CNET:
Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, sent a…

Mark Rober, who is great at explaining and demonstrating math and engineering to…

I have a feeling we’re in for a lot of manipulated videos as…

Here is the good stuff for June 2019.

In some public places, such as schools and hospitals, microphones installed with software…

In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…

Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers:
You might be…

For The New York Times, Kevin Roose on the possibility of machines becoming…

Ben Fry using the “tropiest of design tropes”, describes his goals for visualization.…

You know those sped up videos where there’s a long line for something…

After you’ve made your carefully designed data graphics, you probably want to share them online at some point. This is how I do it.

A small discrepancy in a couple of shapefiles led to a misclassification of…

The single-family home. It’s part of the American dream, but it can be…

Researchers went around rural Pennsylvania, showing people the charts above and asking what…