Nathan Yau

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…

Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…

Elijah Meeks continues his essay on using Gestalt principles for visualization. See parts 1 and 2 first.

Martin Bellander saw some projects that extracted color from movie posters and trailers,…

Remember that engineer’s guide to drinks a while back? I think this one…

Did you watch the latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver yet? You…

Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…

With all the talk recently about how much water it takes to grow…

I hear there’s a show called “Game of Thrones” on the T.V., where…

Jeremy B. Merrill is working on the problem of too much data in PDF files. “My pattern solves this problem using tabula-extractor, the Ruby library (and command-line tool) that powers Tabula. It’s built to output data to CSVs or to a MySQL database.”

Gestalt refers to our ability to see a whole from the parts, and…

Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…

You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…

Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…

Redesigning a visualization can be useful in teaching a point. Make a graphic…

Designer Michael Pecirno experiments with single-subject maps in his project Minimal Maps. No…