Nathan Yau

The particles R package from Thomas Lin Pedersen ports d3-force from d3.js to R. Make a bunch of dots move.

Birds migrate to areas more hospitable, but where do they go? It depends…

A car moving at 70 miles per hour has to stop suddenly. Another…

Mikhail Popov, a data scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, led a workshop on…

Every year, we look at the medal counts of each country. Who’s winning?…

Every time we book a flight, a Passenger Name Record is generated and…

Mikaela Shiffrin won her first gold medal in PyeongChang with a fraction of…

This is fun. It’s a fantasy map generator with the following rules:
Project…

One of my least favorite electrical engineering courses in college was on signals…

When you have input to send Congress, you have a number of communication…

If you’re looking for some data to play with, FiveThirtyEight just made it…

Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…

You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…

Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…

Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…

The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…

Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…

FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…