Nathan Yau

Kate McLean, a PhD candidate in Information Experience Design at the Royal College…

League of Legends is an online, free-to-play game that pits two teams of…

Jeff Leek touches on concerns about point-and-click software to find the insights in…

As a way to understand the deadliness and spread of Ebola, the Washington…

Aatish Bhatia, a recent physics PhD, describes the forces involved to do a…

xkcd doing what xkcd does. Randall Munroe charts a brief timeline of interracial…

We browse online, we see ads, and we buy stuff. The better-targeted the…

Philip Guo provides three practical reasons on why it’s worth pursuing a PhD.…

As a way to bring context to the rarity of the 18-inning baseball…

Remember that time you were sitting by the fire reading The Lord of…

I thought I linked to csvkit a while ago, but apparently not. If…

From Vox and research from Zuidhof et al., chickens are quite big these…

With Anheuser-Busch InBev rumored to have an interest in acquiring SABMiller and SABMiller…

In a nutshell, the traveling salesman problem is as follows: “Given a list…

Mapzen focuses on building open source mapping components for developers.…

After you’ve collected data about yourself for a while, you tend to go…

As you may or may not know, climate change could bring with it…

What do you get when you put LEDs on a system of drones…

No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative from the Clinton Foundation, aims…