Nathan Yau

When news breaks, maps often accompany stories (or the maps are the story),…

George Murphy visualized the results of this year’s skateboarding tournament Battle at the…

So here’s a sport I don’t see or hear much about. F1 racing,…

Wired wrote a short profile for Cynthia Brewer, best known for Color Brewer,…

The BBC has a fun piece that shows changes over your lifetime. Enter…

In an interesting use of the before-and-after slider, this Washington Post graphic by…

There’s a new addition to the FlowingData book series on the way.

The Internet Archive makes millions of digitized books available in the form of…

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, looked at how rebounds work in…

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…

This is what you get when you group streets by their geographic orientation…

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.…