Nathan Yau

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.

The central limit theorem:
In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states…

Twitter mapped all the geotagged tweets since 2009. There’s billions of them, so…

A bunch of color schemes and their corresponding hex codes.

The New York Times has a set of tickers that keep track of the money spent on players who are injured sitting on the bench.

In celebration of Arrested Development’s return via Netflix, NPR combed through the jokes…