Nathan Yau

Statistics professor Di Cook was one of the first people I ever talked…

If you want to analyze bodies of text, it’s a good to know…

The New York Times is back at it in explaining the creative process.…

Hearing about machine learning and algorithms a lot recently and not sure what…

For the past few months, Cards Against Humanity polled the American public to…

Here’s a different look at tax cuts and increases from Reuben Fischer-Baum for…

I’m pretty sure this is all that most people want to know. The…

The David Rumsey Map Collection, known for its many browsable historical maps, now…

I heard you like maps. Jim Vallandingham put together a collection of maps…

Disney is set to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. I honestly…

Introducing yourself to R as an Excel user can be tricky, especially when…

Research group Euphrates experimented with lines and a ballet dancer’s movements in Ballet…

Doug Mills, reporting for The New York Times:
Echoing his days as a…

Statistician Kristian Lum described her experiences with harassment as a graduate student at…

As everyone has already checked out for the rest of the year, I’m going to mess around with R to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas and nobody can stop me.

Democrat Doug Jones won in the senate race against Republican Roy More last…

Enrico Bertini, a professor at New York University, delves into the less flashy…

Michael Wines, reporting for The New York Times:
“The politicization of the census…

Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…

NASA. Data. Good.
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see…