Nathan Yau

Melting snowpacks feed into streams and rivers and serve as a source of…

Whoa, that was fast. Data Points is now available. Thanks to all of…

This appeared at my door today. It’s awesome.
I suspect those who pre-ordered…

Employee theft accounts for billions of dollars of lost merchandise per year, so…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cab drivers and chauffeurs make a…

Imperative vs Declarative programming. In the former you tell the computer how to do something, whereas with the latter, you tell the computer what to do. Worthwhile knowing with the recent launch of Vega. [via]

Cartographer Kenneth Field argues that mapping on the Web isn’t really new. The technology is new, but the underlying cartography needs to remain as foundation for the area to move forward.

Visualization online can be a challenge if you don’t know how to program.…

For the past few months, Stamen Design has been working with 3-D data…

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation has a call for magic grants for “a small team of graduate students or postgraduates who are expected to demonstrate the relevance and viability of their ideas by implementing a prototype or creating an innovative media product.” The Columbia branch is led by my adviser. Proposal submission deadline is May 3.

Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist at Cloudera talks about big data in Charlie Rose interview.

FlowingData reader Amir sent this along. In lieu of a list of coffee…

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was horrible, but there have been…

Metrico is a puzzle action game for PlayStation Vita that centers around charts…

Yelp is putting up over 200,000 reviews and offering ten $5,000 awards for students who want to make use of their data.

When you go to one of the major sites to look up the…

There’s a data scientist opening at The New York Times, probably to fill the gap left by DataKind founder Jake Porway. [via]

Deputy editor at Ars Technica Nate Anderson was curious if he could learn…

Pitch Interactive’s drone visualization spread across the Web yesterday. Wes Grubbs, the founder of the group, talked about the data on HuffPost Live.