Nathan Yau

Xaquín G.V. has a dead simple tutorial on how to make a choropleth map with open source QGIS.

Illustrator Ron Miller imagined what Earth’s skies would look like if we had…

There’s a fun CrossValidated thread on statistics jokes. Here’s the one with the…

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős, written by…

We go places. They have names. What do these names mean though? The…

Alexey Papulovskiy collected flight data from Plane Finder for a month, which essentially…

In a different take on the income inequality issue, the Economic Policy Institute,…

TileMill makes it easy to make custom maps. Here’s a detailed, illustrated tutorial on how to do that.

Using data from Beer Advocate, in the form of 1.5 million reviews, yhat…

MapBox, along with Gnip and Eric Fischer, mapped 3 billion tweets and a…

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…