Nathan Yau

Jeremy B. Merrill is working on the problem of too much data in PDF files. “My pattern solves this problem using tabula-extractor, the Ruby library (and command-line tool) that powers Tabula. It’s built to output data to CSVs or to a MySQL database.”

Gestalt refers to our ability to see a whole from the parts, and…

Maybe you saw the Wal-Mart growth map I made a while back. NPR…

Using data from the Earth System Research Laboratory of the National Oceanic and…

You can currently play Pac-Man on Google Maps. Just go to some location…

Changes in gay marriage rights had changed slowly over the years, but more…

Redesigning a visualization can be useful in teaching a point. Make a graphic…

Designer Michael Pecirno experiments with single-subject maps in his project Minimal Maps. No…

From Finger Magazine a few years back, in the heyday of rickrolling and…

Location-based data from social media can be interesting to analyze and map, but…

Data journalism is relatively new as a concept, but in practice it has…

Ri Liu provides an exploratory view of gender gaps around the world through…

An alternative to the pie chart to show proportions.

There are a lot of beards and other types of facial hair in…

“ArchieML (or ‘AML’) was created at The New York Times to make it easier to write and edit structured text on deadline that could be rendered in web pages, or more specifically, rendered in interactive graphics.” Less knowledge of markup language required.

Jeffrey Heer, computer science professor and co-founder of Trifacta, describes the future of…

If you don’t want to bother with JavaScript but want to publish interactive…