Nathan Yau

Those who grow up in poorer families are less likely to go to…

It’s difficult to grasp the severity of homicide around the world. Homicide Monitor…

Millions of peopled died during World War II, but it’s difficult to grasp…

Maybe you’ve waited at a bus stop for longer than usual, and your…

I usually don’t read much into job and degree rankings. The criteria are…

Which NBA basketball team is the greatest ever? Instead of a circular debate…

If you read the books or watched the movies, you get the sense…

Data art is on the rise. Jacoba Urist for the Atlantic gets into…

Hannah Fairfield, who does graphics at the New York Times, talks about using…

Computers can calculate an infinite number of colors, but our brains can only…

Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…

Since the 1970s, NASA has used satellites to take pictures of the Earth’s…

Think of time-lapse photography, and you imagine someone sets up a camera in…

Force of Nature by FIELD is a running installation commissioned by Nike. It…

With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…

“A command line utility for generating topojson from various data sources for fast maps.” Useful for use with D3.

Here’s a straightforward animation that shows US county boundaries change between 1629 and…

A while back, Nate Silver and Allison McCann for FiveThirtyEight estimated age based…

As in, you data me, I data you, and they data us. Jer…