Nathan Yau

Lillian Pierson provides a summary of methods to measure distance and clustering in a spatial context.

We read and hear numbers in the news all the time, but it…

The Economist covered a handful of visualization books in this week’s issue, and…

Immersion by the MIT Media Lab is a view into your inbox that…

The collaborative project Phototrails is a visual exploration of millions of Instagram photos,…

We typically think of Yelp reviews as aggregates on a restaurant or business-specific…

Inspired by Ben Fry’s All Streets map, which showed every road in the…

FlowingData turned six years old last week. I didn’t realize it until after…

Shan Carter and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times updated their housing…

Xaquín G.V. has a dead simple tutorial on how to make a choropleth map with open source QGIS.

Illustrator Ron Miller imagined what Earth’s skies would look like if we had…

There’s a fun CrossValidated thread on statistics jokes. Here’s the one with the…

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős, written by…

We go places. They have names. What do these names mean though? The…

Alexey Papulovskiy collected flight data from Plane Finder for a month, which essentially…

In a different take on the income inequality issue, the Economic Policy Institute,…

TileMill makes it easy to make custom maps. Here’s a detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to do that.

Using data from Beer Advocate, in the form of 1.5 million reviews, yhat…