Nathan Yau

As data grows cheaper and more easily accessible, the people who analyze it…

Curious about how people use “geek” and “nerd” to describe themselves and if…

It’s just metadata. What can you do with that? Kieran Healy, a sociology…

Damien Hirst is an artist known for a number of works, one of…

The Onion tackles data privacy:
“As a law-abiding resident of this nation, I…

It seems like the technical side of map-making, the part that requires code…

OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map that offers up high quality geographic data,…

NlpTools is a PHP library for natural language processing.

Polychart just launched its open beta. “Lightweight visual analytics and business intelligence on the web.” Mainly, a drag-and-drop interface for quick charts.

With all the stuff going on with surveillance and data privacy — especially…

The Brewers Association just released data for 2012 on craft beer production and…

Because every day is a good day to listen to Hans Rosling talk…

When you talk to different people across the United States, you notice small…

Josh Orter takes back-of-the-napkin math to the next level with Stupid Calculations, which…

Using data from the London Fire Brigade, James Cheshire mapped 144,000 incidents in…

Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford describes several myths of big data. Myth #4: It…

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.