Nathan Yau

We usually see Census data in aggregate. It comes in choropleth maps or…

In almost every tutorial on this site, stringsAsFactors is set to FALSE when you read in data with a function like read.csv(). Why isn’t is just set to FALSE by default? Of course, there’s a perfectly logical explanation.

CompStat is a program that started in the New York Police Department, and…

I was flipping through the channels the other night and happened on the…

A mini-app from Shan Carter to convert GeoJSON to TopoJSON. Simplify geometry and change projections along the way.

Ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of a famous writer or literary…

This is a fun one. Software Galaxies by Andrei Kashcha visualizes popular software…

There’s been all sorts of weird stuff going on at Reddit lately, but…

You’ve probably seen those “maps” where people from other countries draw the United…

Geoff McGhee for National Geographic highlights a handful of projects that form a…

Linguist Jack Grieve posted a bunch of maps that show swearing geographically, based…

When you’re a kid, a year seems like forever. Appending “and a half”…

The Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, formerly one of the largest lakes in the…

Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size…

This is Walt Disney’s corporate strategy from 1957. The theatrical films serve as…

Hawk-Eye is a collection of technologies that allows high-granularity sports tracking, most notably…

Japan has a new weather satellite in stationary orbit, Himawari-8, that takes a…

By way of Chris Volinsky, a quiz dilemma for students who want extra…

Claire Cain Miller for the Upshot on when algorithms discriminate:
There is a…

Kind of fun. Branden Rishel mapped just the time zones. No borders or…