Nathan Yau

The Upshot has used a needle to show shifts in their live election…

Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance.

Kofi Annan for Nature on the importance of data in ending poverty and…

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?…