Nathan Yau

There’s a lot of data on criminal justice — prison populations, crime rates,…

Small projects. Decide what you want to make first, and then figure out how to do it.

On the PolicyViz podcast, Kim Rees of Periscopic and Mushon Zer-Aviv of Shual…

Adam Pearce charted minute-by-minute point differentials for NBA games during the 2014-15 season.…

A big ol’ dataset on interaction with the list of news items on the homepage.

A quantitative look at which US grid layout is best.

Guess the Correlation is a straightforward game where you do just that, and…

What if you relived life’s activities in big clumps? Thirty years of sleeping…

Jaakko Seppälä drew ten comic characters, each in its original style and in…

Charlie Loyd, who works with satellite imagery at Mapbox, put together a 12-second…

It must be that time of year again when practitioners try to define visualization. It’s a medium. It’s continuous.

There’s also a collection of video tutorials on how to use QGIS to greater effect.

So great and well-deserved.

Erik Bernhardsson downloaded 50,000 fonts and then threw them to the neural networks…

David Hagan looked closer at why the 11th of the month appeared to…

While we’re on the topic of life expectancy, Tim Urban of Wait But…

Kaggle just opened up a Datasets section to download and analyze public data.…

It took forever and it’s way overdue, but the United States Census Bureau…

The Powerball FAQ was most likely written by a slightly annoyed statistician. You’d…