Nathan Yau

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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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…

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