Nathan Yau

Late last year, Cameron Beccario made a wind map for earth, inspired by…

Personal data collection keeps getting easier and more efficient. Much of what was…

The New York Times is covering Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a series…

The USGS released a more detailed geologic map of Mars, not just renderings…

LeBron James decided to head back to Cleveland, so naturally the odds that…

Packing underwear for a short trip is easy. You just pack a pair…

It’s around that time of year when more people than usual ask for…

Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot have a look at sports…

This graphic from the Gates Foundation is from a few months ago, but…

For small-ish amounts of hierarchical data, most JavaScript libraries can handle the load.…

I’m pretty sure xkcd is the only one who gets away with showing…

NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health…

A statistical model, from Yair Ghitza of Catalist and Andrew Gelman of Columbia…

After a ruling by the United Nations International Court of Justice, Japan was…

Smarty Pins is a simple, fun map game by Google. You get a…

We produce data all the time, everywhere we go, and this process implies…

Jaap de Maat, a graduate student at the Royal College of Art, rigged…

Terry Speed, a emeritus professor in statistics at University of California at Berkeley,…