Nathan Yau

Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…

Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…

Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…

Data is a great vehicle for arguments, but the (not just visual) perception…

Nicky Case, whose projects to simulate segregation and systems with emoji you might…

There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…

Sorting algorithms. Apparently there are an endless number of ways to visualize them…

Irene Ros, the Director of Data Visualization at Bocoup, talks about her path…

Man wears virtual reality headset. Another man throws a ball to headset-wearing man.…

Wendover Productions explains basic economics of airline classes. The passengers in first class…

Based on estimates from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, The New…

You have a mouth with a bunch of tissue in it and manipulate…

The Washington Post looks at the shifting national budget over the past 40…

Cartographer Daniel Huffman tried out Penrose tiling for binning in maps:
A Penrose…

In a recent talk, New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted that…

When you don’t know where to start with a dataset, try to come…

Here’s a fun piece by Karl Sluis. He looked at eight demographic metrics,…

A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…

Spring is in the air in a lot of places, and that means…