Nathan Yau

With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

Designer Ruben van der Vleuten was curious about the shipping process, so he…

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This video clearly describes the distribution of wealth in America using a set…

Crosslet is “a free small (22k without dependencies) JavaScript widget for interactive visualisation and analysis of geostatistical datasets.” It’s a combination of Crossfilter, Leaflet, and D3.

A prediction on the cost of a college degree in 2030. Interesting, although the model is simplistic, namely it assumes tuitions will never level off (if just for a little while) and when no one can afford tuition, there’s going to be more change. Plus the Internet is changing things.

Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula. A collaborative project from Mozilla Open News.

Data visualization group Dataveyes looks closer at the Paris metro system from a…

Over the last 12 years, astronauts have taken a lot of pictures from…

Periscopic founders Kim Rees and Dino Citraro spoke with Co.Design on what makes good visualization.

“I don’t think the goal of vizualization should be that precog understanding, giving you something so quickly that you don’t have to think about it; I think the goal should be that you do have to think about it,” she says. “I want people to have a brain, to have a say. I think it’s becoming only more important as we tackle more nuanced information. I don’t want the computer or the creator to tell me what to believe. I want an opening to say, ‘let me look into that machine.'”

The healthvis R package tries to make creation of interactive graphics easier by rendering in D3.

The example repository for Mining the Social Web if you’re interested in getting started. The Twitter examples rely on a soon to be defunct API, because the book was written in 2011, but the rest is still valid.

How much space is there per person in different countries? Andrew Bergmann for…

If you’ve ever looked at ticket prices for sporting events, you probably noticed…

As summer rolls around here on this side of the planet, CBC News…

Looking for a data scientist? Here’s what you should look for skills-wise.

I’m gonna be out of the country for a while. If all goes…

Long distances (and big numbers) can be difficult grasp. Designers Jesse Williams and…

There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could…