Nathan Yau

Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…

Mapping data is so much about subtleties. The little things add up to…

Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation…

On Writing Well by William Zinsser is a bestselling guide on writing well.…

Most people who use R on the regular learned the language in the…

Gertrude Weaver, 116 years old, was the oldest person in the world for…

Under the directive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, started to release detailed…

On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…

The Washington Post has a straightforward calculator to figure out how much it…

A while back beckmw found the average length of a dissertation for various…

“If it seems as if the list of presidential candidates for 2016 is…

Kevin Ferguson examined color usage in Western films from various angles. One of…

There is a realtime feed for the location of Los Angeles buses. It’s…

Iowa released liquor sales data for weekly purchases at the store level.
This…

In Pieces by designer Bryan James is an animated piece that uses simple…

In an exploration of the connection between humans an nature, artist Ren Ri…

The Citizen Ex browser extension guesses where you’re geographically located on the web.…

Western cities are growing but water supplies are decreasing. That’s not good. ProPublica,…

The US government doesn’t keep a complete record of fatal shootings by police,…

An API client for the ‘Wikidata’ store of semantic data.