Nathan Yau

Alexander Chen visualized “You Still Believe in Me” by the Beach Boys.
This…

Google released a 21-part short video series that introduces R. Most of the…

Some readers asked about career choices in visualization recently, and I was about…

It’s easy to think of online activity as a whirlwind of chatter and…

Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…

In a straightforward view of online activity, Designly shows the approximate number of…

Google search suggestions have transformed into a never-ending source of entertainment and a…

If you’re like me, you often wonder how big the Stay Puft Marshmallow…

Wired has a fun Netflix interview on the behind-the-scenes work on the recommendation…

I’m not entirely sure where this came from, but it’s from someone who…

What would Pangea look like if today’s political boundaries were drawn on it?…

The Guardian posted a small collection of useless infographics. It kind of looks…

The title caption reads: “A classmate was caught using his phone in maths.…

BreweryMap, a Google Maps mashup and mobile app, provides two main functions. The…

John Nelson of IDV Solutions strung together satellite imagery for dramatic animated GIFs.…

Patrick Burns for Deadspin watched 23,000 minutes of SportsCenter, keeping track of the…

Mike Pelletier experimented with quantified emotion in his piece Parametric Expression. This is…

After budget cuts a couple of years ago, I assumed Data.gov was all…