Nathan Yau

Working with R at the New York Times

Visualization / Amanda Cox, Data Stories, lunch talk, R

Amanda Cox from the New York Times was on the Data Stories podcast.…
Playing chicken on the street and the ultimate battle for power

Self-surveillance / gender, walking

There’s the unspoken agreement between two people who walk directly towards each other.…
Refugee migration mapped globally

Maps / migration, New York Times, refugees

According to estimates recently released by the United Nations, about 14 million left…
Entire English Wikipedia in physical print

Data Art / physical, Wikipedia

The exhibit From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! opened last week with a hit of…
Excel heat map hack

Maps / Excel, heat map

John Nelson from IDV Solutions explains how he uses a Microsoft Excel hack…
Link

imager →

Software / images, link, R

An R package for image processing.
Statistics to weed out fraud

Statistics / fake data, fraud

As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…
Data journalism hoorah

Visualization / data journalism, Google

In parallel to the Google Trends release, the Google News Lab produced a…
Google Trends in real-time

Apps / Google, search, trends

Google Trends used to be a place where you looked up trends for…
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How to Make Variable Width Bar Charts in R

Tutorials / R

The code to create these bar chart variations is almost the same as if you were to make a standard bar chart. But make sure you get the math right.
Traded animals

Infographics / animals, environment, Fathom, trading

Based on data from the CITES Trade Database, “more than 27 million animals…
Super Mario Bros. was designed on graph paper

Maps / Mario, Nintendo, video games

Leading up to the release of Super Mario Maker, which lets you create…
Computer program learns to play classic Nintendo games

Statistics / algorithm, Mario, Nintendo, video games

I knew I had seen another automated video game thing before. Tom Murphy…
Link

CSV to HTML Table →

Software / JavaScript, link

“Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table. Done in 100% JavaScript.”
Reviving the Statistical Atlas of the United States with New Data

Statistical Atlas / government, United States

Due to budget cuts, there is no plan for an updated atlas. So I recreated the original 1870 Atlas using today’s publicly available data.
Automated Super Mario World gameplay through machine learning

Statistics / algorithm, machine learning, Mario, neural networks

Seth Bling made a bot — MarI/O — that automatically learns how to…
Quick reference guide to thematic cartography

Maps / Axis Maps, cartography, thematic

Mapping data is so much about subtleties. The little things add up to…
Spurious Correlations, the book

Statistics / book, humor

Last year Tyler Vigen put together a fun project that found strong correlation…
On visualizing data well

Design

On Writing Well by William Zinsser is a bestselling guide on writing well.…
R is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success

Coding / lunch talk, R

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

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