Nathan Yau

Many cities provide free bus tickets for homeless people who want to relocate.…

Speaking of outliers, it’s not always obvious when and why a data point…

Neural networks can feel like a black box, because, well, for most people…

I think it’s every statistician’s fantasy to crack open a lottery’s flaw using the numbers. No? Just me? Okay, whatever.

In a project he calls Sentence Space, Robin Sloan implemented a neural network…

False positives. Over-policing. Bias. This isn’t stuff you just mess around with.

Smart home. Smart city. They have a positive ring to it. But we assume everyone uses it only for good things.

556 people have gone to space. In an article on their changed perspectives,…

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…