Nathan Yau

After seeing a Reddit post on the convergence of Miss Korea faces, supposedly…

Deadspin made a straightforward map that shows the highest paid public employee in…

The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…

Jerome Cukier describes the process behind making his Game of Thrones interactive.

Watch Arrested Development enough and you start to realize there are a lot…

On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…

In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…

A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since Data Points: Visualization…

This is my first time hearing about this, probably because it only happens…

GeoGuessr is a game of location. It plops you somewhere in the world via Google street view, and you figure out where you ara. The closer you are, the more points you get.

How to create a hexagonal cartogram using a combination of ArcGIS, Python, and D3.

Terrence Fradet of Fathom Information Design ponders whether metro maps suffer or benefit…

When you focus on all the small events and decisions that happen throughout…

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own…

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check…

Nevermind the horrible traffic in Los Angeles, where it takes a several hours…

Jaz Parkinson made color signatures for classic novels. Basically, mentions of colors were…

Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.

Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus. Well, about as cool as someone who calls his or herself a data cruncher, anyways.