Nathan Yau

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…

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NASA. Data. Good.
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds…

Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy, reporting for the Upshot, highlights research from Sean…

There’s another essay on Distill by Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen. They describe…

Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…

Lena Groeger, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten, reporting for ProPublica with a…

Adam Pearce, a New York Times graphics editor, provides the notes and thinking behind the charts he made during the year.

Remember the artist Tatsuo Horiuchi who uses Microsoft Excel to paint scenery? Four…