Nathan Yau

Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

Mike Bostock continues to beef up the documentation and tutorials for D3. This one for selections.

In this straightforward video, Marius Budin offers a look at our insecurities as…

Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…

As an alternative to dot density maps, Binify by Kevin Schaul allows you…

This stop motion video from BuzzFeed shows how much food you can buy…

Jer Thorp describes visualization as process rather than a tool or a product. “Please visualize our data.”

Mr. Dalliard provides this handy flowchart to organize time travel movies. And yes,…

What your zip code reveals about you. More on data brokers and how advertisers and businesses use your information to sell you stuff.

Michal Migurski talks online mapping on the Data Stories podcast. Some history and current technologies. Skip to about 15 minutes in to get to the meat.

The Kepler mission by NASA has discovered more than 100 planets that orbit…

With the start of the NBA playoffs tomorrow, it’s worth coming back to…

Designer Ruben van der Vleuten was curious about the shipping process, so he…

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This video clearly describes the distribution of wealth in America using a set…

Crosslet is “a free small (22k without dependencies) JavaScript widget for interactive visualisation and analysis of geostatistical datasets.” It’s a combination of Crossfilter, Leaflet, and D3.

A prediction on the cost of a college degree in 2030. Interesting, although the model is simplistic, namely it assumes tuitions will never level off (if just for a little while) and when no one can afford tuition, there’s going to be more change. Plus the Internet is changing things.

Extract CSV data from PDF files with Tabula. A collaborative project from Mozilla Open News.

Data visualization group Dataveyes looks closer at the Paris metro system from a…