Nathan Yau

Cartographer Gretchen Peterson taught 70 second graders about maps. She talks about her positive experience and the kids’ excitement and makes the OSM index cards she used in the class.

The United States Census Bureau just made more data available via their API. You can now access decennial data for 1990, 2000, and 2010. The API isn’t especially advanced, but it’s a heck of a lot better than PDF tables.

By Samuel Huron and Romain Vuillemot, Visual Sedimentation is “a JavaScript library for visualizing streaming data, inspired by the process of physical sedimentation.” Be sure to check out the examples.

I’m not into video games, and my experience has been near zero since…

Andrew Leonard for Salon fears what might come of the creative process if…

ESPN profiled professional basketball gambler Bob Voulgaris. He shoots a lot of data into a predictive model for NBA games and then makes bets based on simulations. His ROI is falling.

From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…

Add another way to make state-level choropleth maps. Stately, a project by Intridea,…

The Stanford seminar lectures on human-computer interaction are all free to view online. They all look good, but lecture 6 on “living, breathing data” with Kim Rees from Periscopic should be of most interest.

Steven Citron-Pousty provides a thorough primer on finding and making sense of geospatial data on the Internet.

In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…

It’s not especially straightforward to know or find out what’s going on with…

With Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation, 116 cardinals from various regions have to come…

Hadley Wickham has been working on a book that covers advanced programming in R, namely programming concepts and workflow and package development. It goes to print later this year, but the contents are freely available for consumption now.

Nicholas Felton, who you probably know from his annual reports, is giving a two-day workshop on May 27 to 28 in Berlin on designing data-based visual narratives. It’s limited to 20 participants, so it’ll probably be an up close and personal experience.

Chris Dancy likes to track facets of his life. A lot. Above is…

A follow-up to this from David Brooks

Possible path drawing in video games [via]

On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

A thorough recap of the event