Nathan Yau

Learning how people play their games to provide more fun

A profile of the omnipresent Jer Thorp on Mashable

By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…

Useful with dense point clouds; also this method using size instead of color

As 2013 nears, let the recaps, reviews, and best ofs begin. Twitter put…

This looks promising. Benefits include: stability, anonymous access, and no rate limiting.

This one’s for you Game of Thrones fans and aficionados. Jerome Cukier visualized…

From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of…

Andrew Barr and Richard Johnson for the National Post took a detailed look…

Something changed. [via]…

Using k-means to group multiple symbols that overlap and clutter

James Grady from Fathom Information Design had a look at the family tree…

Free online course from Code School for getting started with R

Max Fisher for the Washington Post mapped country emotion ratings, based on the…

The “Instagram of maps” or more appropriately, works on mobile

Impact of vaccines plotted over time shows obvious impact [via]

Cartograms in D3. Way smooth and interactive.

In 1979, Atari released Lunar Lander, a game whose object was to land…

Jer Thorp talks ethics in the data-as-new-oil metaphor:
[W]e need to change the…

Use k-means to find most used colors