Nathan Yau

NOAA visualized global vegetation over a year, and the result is beautiful:

We’ve…

Stuff happens, and people tweet about it. Something major happens, and a lot…

When you go to a conference, there are typically several talks going on…

Mike Bostock, creator of D3, believes in using examples to show what can be done with his code.

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…