Nathan Yau

Creator of the first Statistical Atlas of the United States

Run for your lives. The red concentric circles on the green squiggly are…

Just imagine the possibilities.

By Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho, “This is a walk made out of the…

An argument against the buzz around the dire need for data scientists; some stuff to disagree with but some good points

Big data is just a bunch of numbers; computers will do the brute force labor, but you still have to use your brain.

This is how marketers see visualization and information graphics. Glorified spam, kind of.

I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a look at the percentage of academic…

A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3

From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these…

Below the Boat produces beautiful laser-cut wood maps:
Starting with a bathymetric chart…

Download the book as a PDF with R code supplement

Tickets don’t go on sale until February, but the first half of the speaker list was revealed. Looks great.

A group of researchers at Michigan State University, led by Phil Howard, explored…

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from…

Highlights from the world’s best graphics department in journalism

Cartographer Martin Elmer made a truncated history map of the world:
This map…

Using powers for good to improve education

On news of the Houston Texans getting ready to build the largest video…