Nathan Yau

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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…
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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…
Oldest person in the world keeps dying

Statistics / death, FiveThirtyEight

Gertrude Weaver, 116 years old, was the oldest person in the world for…
Loans from Freddie and Fannie that defaulted after the bubble

Statistics / economics, loans, mortgage

Under the directive of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, started to release detailed…
Reddit button ends, and here’s the click data

Data Sources / button, Reddit

On April 1, Reddit posted a simple button with a 60-second timer that…
Cost to replace cable with streaming services, etc

Statistics / cable, cut the cord

The Washington Post has a straightforward calculator to figure out how much it…
Length of the average master’s thesis

Statistical Visualization / R, thesis

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

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