Nathan Yau

Geographic Bounding Boxes. A trivial task in a 2-D space, but tricker on sphere.

The poster by Daniel E. Coe shows the life-like historical flows of the…

In parts of the world where there are few smartphones and GPS-enabled devices,…

Paul Miller disconnected from the Internet completely for a year. He describes an experience of at first feeling free and unburdened but eventually feeling lonely and, well, disconnected.

There are over 4,000 Lego minifigure characters ranging from plumbers and judges to…

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…

Kevin Jamieson, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at the University of…

Ben Orlin likes math and teaching. He’s bad at drawing. He has a…

Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

Mike Bostock continues to beef up the documentation and tutorials for D3. This one for selections.

In this straightforward video, Marius Budin offers a look at our insecurities as…

Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…

As an alternative to dot density maps, Binify by Kevin Schaul allows you…

This stop motion video from BuzzFeed shows how much food you can buy…

Jer Thorp describes visualization as process rather than a tool or a product. “Please visualize our data.”

Mr. Dalliard provides this handy flowchart to organize time travel movies. And yes,…

What your zip code reveals about you. More on data brokers and how advertisers and businesses use your information to sell you stuff.

Michal Migurski talks online mapping on the Data Stories podcast. Some history and current technologies. Skip to about 15 minutes in to get to the meat.

The Kepler mission by NASA has discovered more than 100 planets that orbit…