Nathan Yau

Since the 1970s, NASA has used satellites to take pictures of the Earth’s…

Think of time-lapse photography, and you imagine someone sets up a camera in…

Force of Nature by FIELD is a running installation commissioned by Nike. It…

With wearables and cheaper and advancing tech, the how part of personal data…

“A command line utility for generating topojson from various data sources for fast maps.” Useful for use with D3.

Here’s a straightforward animation that shows US county boundaries change between 1629 and…

A while back, Nate Silver and Allison McCann for FiveThirtyEight estimated age based…

As in, you data me, I data you, and they data us. Jer…

Fathom provides an interactive browser for a year of earthquakes, based on data…

There’s been a sudden bump in grid maps lately taking the place of…

When you walk down the aisles of the grocery store, there are probably…

Wyoming just passed a law that makes it illegal to collect data about…

There were some blips on Twitter last week for the DrunkTufte hashtag for…

Virginia Eubanks for Slate describes the dangers of relying too heavily on black-boxed…

For a while, somewhere in between 2007 and 2011, infographics — in the…

Eric Benson for FiveThirtyEight delves into cattle theft, which can cost an owner…

An analysis by Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Nathaniel Hendren of NBER…

“Datalib is a JavaScript data utility library. It provides facilities for data loading, type inference, common statistics, and string templates.”