Nathan Yau

In a straightforward view of online activity, Designly shows the approximate number of…

Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a…

If you’re like me, you often wonder how big the Stay Puft Marshmallow…

Wired has a fun Netflix interview on the behind-the-scenes work on the recommendation…

I’m not entirely sure where this came from, but it’s from someone who…

What would Pangea look like if today’s political boundaries were drawn on it?…

The Guardian posted a small collection of useless infographics. It kind of looks…

The title caption reads: “A classmate was caught using his phone in maths.…

BreweryMap, a Google Maps mashup and mobile app, provides two main functions. The…

John Nelson of IDV Solutions strung together satellite imagery for dramatic animated GIFs.…

Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…

Mike Pelletier experimented with quantified emotion in his piece Parametric Expression. This is…

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…

I’m not entirely sure how to interpret this music video from Franz Ferdinand,…

The people I follow on Twitter almost never use emojis, but every now…

A quick, three-step tutorial on how to make maps that look vintage in the open source QGIS. [via]

The NYPL map vectorizer turns old maps into GIS data.

GE has a short video series on a fictional town called Datalandia where…