Nathan Yau

Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, was curious about…

The Washington Post provides a look at the death penalty in the United…

In another take on the game of what Google suggests while searching, Seth…

Last month, Strava, which allows users to track their bike rides and runs,…

Incomes and the cost of living vary across the country. Some areas might…

From the machine learning course on Udacity, an a cappella group sings a…

Paul Ford describes his fascination with military infographics. Here’s what he has to…

Currently in beta, Beaker lets you work and experiment with data with different…

Bruce Feiler for The New York Times describes his concern and distaste for…

From the U.S. National Drought Monitor.
The entire state of California is in…

For reasons of autonomy, control, and privacy, Benjamin Mako Hill runs his own…

Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…

We’ve seen rankings for alcohol consumption per capita around the world. These tend…

The MIT Media Lab Playful Systems group is working on an experiment in…

Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or statistics? There are openings…

Alyson Hurt for NPR Visuals describes how they make responsive data tables for…

After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…

This is fun. Tyler Vigen wrote a program that attempts to automatically find…

“Type I” and “Type II” errors, names first given by Jerzy Neyman and…

Using baby name data from the Social Security Administration, Brian Rowe made this…