Nathan Yau

With Google Reader closing its doors in July (which stinks because I use…

A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.

Today might be pi day, but yesterday was Feltron Report day. The theme…

It can be tricky picking the right seat at a dinner party. So…

At SXSW, Nate Silver discusses data bias and the strangeness of fame.

In 2007, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas created the word tree, a search…

Jake Porway, executive director of DataKind on data hackathons and why they require…

Self-tracking devices are all the rage these days. I went to the Apple…

Lois Beckett for ProPublica has a thorough piece on data brokers — companies…

Quandl is a search engine for time series data. Similar to DataMarket, but probably with more straightforward download.

My many thanks to FlowingData sponsors who help keep the lights on around…

When we build models of the world, we often think of it broken…

Along the same lines as Google Flu Trends, researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and…

The General Social Survey has been running since 1972, and many questions have remain unchanged to make comparisons possible. The data from then to 2012 can now be downloaded in a variety of formats. [via]

Hackathons to put open data to use.

These days it’s relatively easy to figure out connections between people via email,…

The United States Census Bureau just released county-level commute estimates for 2011, based…

An old one from xkcd. I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry,…

Who’s going to be the next pope? I know all of you are…