Nathan Yau

In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…

A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since Data Points: Visualization…

This is my first time hearing about this, probably because it only happens…

GeoGuessr is a game of location. It plops you somewhere in the world via Google street view, and you figure out where you ara. The closer you are, the more points you get.

How to create a hexagonal cartogram using a combination of ArcGIS, Python, and D3.

Terrence Fradet of Fathom Information Design ponders whether metro maps suffer or benefit…

When you focus on all the small events and decisions that happen throughout…

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own…

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check…

Nevermind the horrible traffic in Los Angeles, where it takes a several hours…

Jaz Parkinson made color signatures for classic novels. Basically, mentions of colors were…

Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.

Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus. Well, about as cool as someone who calls his or herself a data cruncher, anyways.

Geographic Bounding Boxes. A trivial task in a 2-D space, but tricker on sphere.

The poster by Daniel E. Coe shows the life-like historical flows of the…

In parts of the world where there are few smartphones and GPS-enabled devices,…

Paul Miller disconnected from the Internet completely for a year. He describes an experience of at first feeling free and unburdened but eventually feeling lonely and, well, disconnected.

There are over 4,000 Lego minifigure characters ranging from plumbers and judges to…

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…