Nathan Yau

Crystal clusters of world data

Data Art / algorithm, crystals, physical

Artist Scott Kildall generates what he calls World Data Crystals by mapping data…
Most underrated films

Data Sources / ggplot, RottenTomatoes

Ben Moore was curious about overrated and underrated films.
“Overrated” and “underrated” are…
Create a barebones R package from scratch

Coding / package, R

While we’re on an R kick, Hilary Parker described how to create an…
R for cats and cat lovers

Coding / introduction, R

Following the lead of JavaScript for Cats by Maxwell Ogden, Scott Chamberlain and…
Hip hop vocabulary compared between artists

Statistics / music, rapper, vocabulary

Matt Daniels compared rappers’ vocabularies to find out who knows the most words.…
Your mobility at various times during the day

Maps / commute, traffic

Isoscope, a class project by Flavio Gortana, Sebastian Kaim and Martin von Lupin,…
The size of Game of Thrones dragons compared

Infographics / fiction, Game of Thrones, size

Because Game of Thrones. Max Fleishman and Fernando Alfonso III for The Daily…
Views of white Americans

Statistical Visualization / Amanda Cox, New York Times, racism

In light of the Donald Sterling brouhaha, Amanda Cox for The Upshot put…
Hiding a pregnancy from advertisers

Statistics / marketing, pregnancy, target

You probably remember how Target used purchase histories to predict pregnancies among their…
Interactive visualization used as music video

Data Art / George and Jonathan, music

George & Jonathan used an interactive audio visualization for their recent album George…
Combatting the Obsession with New Tools

Software / learning, Michal Migurski

Michal Migurski thinks about finding the right job for the tool rather than…
Learn regular expressions with RegExr

Apps / regular expression

Learning regular expressions tends to involve a lot of trial and error and…
Lawmaking through the House and Senate visualized

Network Visualization / government, lawmaking

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for American Politics and Public Policy…
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Detecting and Plotting Sequence Changes

Tutorials / changes, R, time series

Change detection for a time series can be tricky, but guess what, there’s an R package for that. Then show the results in a custom plot.
Audio visualizer made with matrix of fire

Data Art / fire, music

The Pyro Board is a matrix of 2,500 flames that have controllable intensity,…
Detailed map of baseball fandom →

Maps / baseball, facebook, Upshot

For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…
PourOver allows filtering of large datasets in your browser

Software / database, New York Times

The New York Times released PourOver, a library that lets you do database-like…
Where people bike and run, worldwide

Maps / biking, running, Strava

Remember those running maps I made with limited data from RunKeeper? Strava, which…
The Change My Son Brought, Seen Through Personal Data

Data Underload / birth, changes, featured, life, time series

I combed through personal data that I’ve actively and passively collected since early graduate school to see how life is different now with a 6-month old.
The Upshot, a data-centric site from The New York Times launched

News / New York Times, Upshot

We heard a little bit about The Upshot last month. Now we get…

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