Nathan Yau

It seems like ages since we ran one of these.
It’s hard to…

Hadley Wickham gives a two-hour video tutorial on how to use his ggplot2 package in R. I have limited experience with it, but a lot of people really like it and use the package exclusively for their visual analysis needs.

The central limit theorem:
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states…

Twitter mapped all the geotagged tweets since 2009. There’s billions of them, so…

A bunch of color schemes and their corresponding hex codes.

The New York Times has a set of tickers that keep track of the money spent on players who are injured sitting on the bench.

In celebration of Arrested Development’s return via Netflix, NPR combed through the jokes…

In distributed denial-of-service attack a bunch of machines make a bunch of requests…

Profound.…

Easily scrape tweets and download them as a spreadsheet with ScraperWiki.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data for more than…

NYU ITP graduate student Federico Zannier collected data about himself — online browsing,…

PBS Off Book’s recent episode is on “the art of data visualization.” It…

We’ve seen plenty of augmented reality where you put on some digitally-enabled glasses…

MapBox implemented vector tiles for both scalability and flexibility. “MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles, interactive features, geojson streams, mobile renderers, and much more.” Be sure to scroll down to the examples.

About 35,000 meteorites have been recorded since 2500 BC, and a little over…

Nate Silver topped Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business.

In collaboration between USGS, NASA and TIME, Google released a quarter century of…

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