Nathan Yau

Text can be a great source of data, but it can be a…

Fathom Information Design watched all six Rocky movies, classified segments into dialogue, training,…

Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with the Knight Foundation and Quid, visualized the…

Just for kicks, Jimmy Chen plotted artists on a subjective arrogance-vs-genius scale. Above…

Ekisto, by visual artist Alex Dragulescu, is an experiment in visualizing online communities…

Based largely on satellite data and the results of an airborne data collection…

A video from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme explains global warming and projected changes…

FlightAware is a live flight tracker that lets you look up a flight…

The holiday season came out of nowhere this year. Everyone put their lights…

A recently divorced woman is using her personal data — phone logs, emails,…

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

For the downtime post-turkey. James Trimble stuck the top 200 reddits of all…

Using the effective jellybean method, Ze Frank describes the finite time we have.…

Andrew Filer mapped the reach of public radio stations in the United Stations,…

The Washington Post looked at Super ZIP codes, a classification based on household…

Bokeh, a Python library by Continuum Analytics, helps you visualize your data on…

Presented mostly for my fond memories as a grade schooler, with a fresh…

Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al. produced high-resolution maps of global forestry to…

Nice. See also Lisa Simpson on the curve of knowledge. [via reddit]…