Nathan Yau

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.

Million Base is a database of 2.2 million chess games. Steve Tung visualized…

After seeing an isochrone map drawn by Francis Galton, Peter Kerpedjiev was curious…

You’re headed to the subway platform and you hear a train coming. The…

I tried playing Minecraft a couple of times but quickly lost interest. Clearly…

Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…