Nathan Yau

Fibonacci sculptures fake movement

Data Art / 3-D printing, Fibonacci

John Edmark made some pretty things.…
Snow depth by dogs

Infographics / BBC, snow

For the US east coasters and their pets.…
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Choropleth Maps and Shapefiles in R

Tutorials / choropleth, R, shapefile

Fill those empty polygons with color, based on shapefile or external data.
Sexual insecurities found in Google search results

Infographics / Google, New York Times, sex

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz continues with his Google search data-related op-eds for the New York…
Metrocard purchasing workflows compared

Design / MetroCard, subway

The process to purchase a MetroCard for the New York Subway is different…
The dots are people

Design / human

The simple analysis is to approach data blind, as machine output. But this…
Being dangerous

Data Sharing / lunch talk, privacy

Think big data, and it’s tough not to associate it with big corporations…
Convert geographic data to 3-D models for printing

Software / 3-d, NodeJS, physical, shapefile

This seems like fun. The NodeJS package shp2stl by Doug McCune lets you…
Book checkouts from the British Library

Infographics / British Library, checkouts

In efforts to emphasize the importance of the library (very), the British Library…
Whale songs visualized

Data Art / music, whale

It’s been known for decades that the sounds that whales make show patterns…
Interactive: How Americans Get to Work

Data Underload / commute, work

The way that people get around can say a lot about how a place is made up. Here’s an interactive map that shows how people get to work in America.
Feeling hot, hot, hot

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, environment, temperature, time series, weather

When you look at overall global temperatures over time, you see a rising…
Chart none of the things

Design / human

When it comes to storytelling, copious amounts of data often means lots of…
Genetic algorithm walkers

Statistics / algorithm, QWOP, simulation

If you ever wondered what it looks like when QWOP-like figures learn to…
Basic chart, wrong conclusions

Mistaken Data / Bloomberg, income

A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…
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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