Nathan Yau

This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…

Denise Lu for The New York Times provides a quick overview of the…

The end of a year is always a good time to look back…

Nick Barrowman on the myth of raw data:
Assumptions inevitably find their way…

D3.js can be used for a lot of things, and for some people it’s too much to deal with.

Niklas Elmqvist provides a detailed guide for finding and a visualization PhD program:…

The stock market is in a state. So finicky the past few months.…

Max Read for New York Magazine describes the fake-ness of internet through the…

While looking through this year’s projects, picking out my favorites, I couldn’t help…

Bloomberg charted voter turnout for the just past midterm elections, comparing 2018 against…

Matthew Conlen provides a short explainer of how kernel density estimation works. Nifty.…

Kirk Goldsberry is back at ESPN. I put this here mainly because it’s…

The Wall Street Journal highlighted a disagreement between data and business at Netflix.…

Descartes Labs used machine learning to identify all of the trees in the…

Jon Keegan scraped the playlist from the local radio station’s all-Christmas playlist for…

Edward Tufte criticized R for not being able to do some things typographically. It came in a tweet and was likely misunderstood. Sort of. I got a clarification from the man himself.

Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…

In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…

Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that…