Nathan Yau

Mathematician Hannah Fry talks about love in terms of three “mathematically verifiable” tips:…

Quick and simple. It is a common theme in visualization that preaches clarity…

Workers’ Compensation, a promise to pay medical bills and some of your wages…

Sharif Corinaldi moved from New York to Berkeley for graduate school and was…

The Girl Scouts, known for their annual cookie sales, uses two bakers. These…

On Broadway, by Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, and Lev Manovich, provides…

In her 2012 piece Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg used DNA found in public…

By Emily McDowell, this recounting of dates initiated by the internet is funny.…

Parabon NanoLabs is working on a service that provides face estimates using DNA…

I think there are people who still go to the Department of Motor…

The R site has a new face. It looked dated for years —…

A heat map is a grid of numbers colored by value. I wrote…

In football video game Madden, NFL players are scored based on skill, which…

Inspired by the Python libraries RoboBrowser and BeautifulSoup, the rvest package by Hadley…

Planet Money goes back to a 1984 article by Steven Levy that discusses…

Software engineer Chris Beaumont visualized the strength of opponent hands in Texas hold…

Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…

Michael Beuoy made a win probability model for NBA teams and games, based…