Nathan Yau

Translating images to words

Statistics / Google, language, neural networks

With Google’s image search, the results kind of exist in isolation. There isn’t…
One animated art piece per day, with D3.js

Data Art / animation, d3js

Data-Driven Documents, or D3.js, is a flexible JavaScript library that lets you draw…
3-D model to show free-climb route

Maps / 3-d, climbing, New York Times

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are free-climbing almost 3,000 feet up El Capitan,…
Machine learning podcast

Statistics / lunch talk, podcast, Talking Machines

I’m glad podcasts are a thing right now. Talking Machines is a new…
Mapped history of how Native American land was taken

Maps / history, land

In Invasion of America, an animated map shows the loss of land.…
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Working with Map Projections and Shapefiles in R

Tutorials / projections, R, shapefile

No need to settle for the mapping defaults in R. Apply map projections to show geographic data in a way most suitable for your work.
Tim Cook Chernoff Face

Data Art / Chernoff, humor, Tim Cook

This amused me. By artist Christo Allegra.…
Fake correlation

Statistics / correlation, sampling

Gabriel Rossman, a sociology professor at UCLA, describes colliders — or when correlation…
The first photo of the United States by NASA satellite

Maps / NASA, satellite

In 1974, NASA published their first satellite photo of the contiguous United States…
Turning 30, explained with charts

Infographics / age, humor

You get older as time passes. (That’s how age works last time I…
Arduino Workshop, a good book for getting started

Coding / Arduino, book review

I started working through Arduino Workshop by John Boxall over the holidays, and…
Japan fertility rate forecasts versus reality

Statistical Visualization / birth, forecast, Japan, Washington Post

It’s hard to predict the future, especially when humans are involved. Oftentimes, there…
Every episode of Friends season 1, played simultaneously

Data Art / average, Friends

All ten seasons of Friends are currently available on Netflix, but watching shows…
$5.2 million in extra cab tips, found in public data

Statistics / taxi, tips

A few months ago BusinessWeek ran an article on how much people tip…
Rapper travels and a robot arm

Data Art / long-exposure, music

Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement. by Tahir Hemphill explores rappers’ geographic mentions in their…
Rising R usage in the sciences

Software / R, science

R continues its growth, and usage in the sciences is no exception. Nature…
Statisticians in World War II

Statistics / war

The Economist recounts the stories of statisticians who solved problems during wartime. Although…
Auto recalls for the year set record

Infographics / big numbers, New York Times, recalls

There were a lot of auto recalls — 62 million of them —…
Annual Performance Review

Site News / annual review

I love my work. However, I miss out on great things as a…
Inadvertent algorithmic cruelty

Statistics / algorithms, facebook, human

If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…

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