Nathan Yau

Sometimes it can be a challenge to produce data graphics in vector format,…

Last year, URL shortening service bitly and Forbes made a map that showed…

I’m at an age where my feed is filled with data points. Every…

The video below shows ten seconds of trading on Blackberry on October 2,…

Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata for Information Geographies mapped the most visited…

When you go to the United States Census site, Data.gov, or similar government-run…

Big data, in all its glory, promises insights into the soul of humankind.…

Measuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity opens at Institute for…

Mike Bostock, Shan Carter, and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times explore…

Foursquare check-ins can be self-encapsulated and personal to the individual, where each dot…

A while back we saw a size comparison of random spaceships. That one…

The Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, mapped 220,000 square…

In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…

Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…

It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…

In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…

A quick list of command-line tools to putz around with data.

Probublica has a detailed piece on the potential overuse of acetaminophen, commonly known…

When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…