Nathan Yau

What do you get if you take famous literary works, strip out all…

Keith Collins for Quartz ran some quick numbers for people who visited the…

The New York Public Library just made over 180,000 digital items in the…

American immigration history is chock full of policies and restrictions, and you can…

We take antibiotics. Bacteria dies, but some lives, evolves and develops a resistance…

The Powerball Lottery is big news in the United States right now. The…

In their book Ingredients, Dwight Eschliman and Steve Ettlinger explore additives in common…

We tend to think of life in terms of cause and effect. Do…

A how-to to break down images into just their colors.

Forget about Shakespeare. Let’s look at a real classic: Love Actually. Somehow I…

A lot of data you get are estimates with uncertainty attached. Plus or…

An R package for “Network visualization in the ‘ggplot2’ framework” by the folks at Iowa State.

This was the second year of doing FlowingData full-time and everything seems to be running smoothly. Also: I feel really old.

Martin Grandjean looked at the structure of Shakespeare tragedies through character interactions. Each…

In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…

There isn’t a complete government record for people killed by police, which is…

Suggestions. Not just snark.

Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…