Nathan Yau

There are many ways to estimate how similar two cities are — weather,…

In 1939, John and Ruby Lomax traveled through ten southern states in three…

Elizabeth Barber was in a long-distance relationship, and Strava was a way for…

Alec Barrett for TWO-N describes the benefits and some of the intricacies of…

Maps typically show a view from straight above, which is good for navigation…

Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
In at least one previous…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

From 2010, Steve Jobs on data privacy:
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Building on their previous visualization work on black boys dropping income levels in…

Lisa Charlotte Rost for Datawrapper provides guidance for designing choropleth maps that most…

Emily Baumgaertner reporting for The New York Times:
But critics of the change…

Vega-Lite is a grammar for interactive graphics primarily used for analysis. Altair is…

The USA National Phenology Network uses a computer model to estimate heat build-up…

Issie Lapowsky for Wired:
The change that’s already come to Pennsylvania may not…

As you can imagine, there was plenty of conversation between Earth and Apollo…

Research by Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones, and Sonya Porter from the…

Army ants function without a leader and yet accomplish very organized-looking things, such…

Frustrated with vehicles blocking bus and bike lanes, Alex Bell applied some statistical…

Michael W. Kearney implemented a classifier for Twitter bots. It’s called botornot:
Uses…