Nathan Yau

A while back we saw a size comparison of random spaceships. That one…

The Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, mapped 220,000 square…

In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…

Projection mapping is the art of using physical objects as display surfaces and…

It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…

In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…

A quick list of command-line tools to putz around with data.

Probublica has a detailed piece on the potential overuse of acetaminophen, commonly known…

When you look for overall trends, you often poke around the data in…

In the continued series of meta-data-driven maps, OpenStreetMap shows the work of individuals…

North Carolina State statistics graduate student Joshua Katz already mapped dialect across the…

Census data can be interesting and super informative, but getting the data out…

It’s been just under a month since the Job Board went up, and…

Josh Stevens, a PhD candidate at Penn State, mapped 92 years of sasquatch…

Emily Chow and Gene Thorp for The Washington Post explored the change in…

Tatsuo Horiuchi wanted to learn something new before retiring, so he bought a…

In a collaborative effort at The New York Times, a Fashion Week browser…

By way of reddit, analog traces, or as they’re more commonly known: dirt.…

With just five days left until Grand Theft Auto 5 is out, a…