Nathan Yau

Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source

Mostly ugly, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

Lance Hosey, for The New York Times, on design, beauty, and functionality.
We…

Experiences analyzing lots of data and collaborating with computer scientists, data scientists, and quantitative analysts

Jon Millward explored porn star demographics using a data scrape from the Internet…

From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…

Helped out some for this NPR article

Neil Freeman reimagined state boundary lines based on population. He started with an…

A handful of experts weighed in on visualization as a spectrum rather than…

With the State of the Union address tonight, The Guardian plotted the Flesh-Kincaid…

Viviana Ferro, Ilaria Pagin, and Elisa Zamarian had a look at all of…

Automatically make a color palette based on color space

My friends just got this for me, and it’s pretty much the perfect…

Bringing the human to data

Tom Cheesman of Swansea University, along with Kevin Flanagan and Studio NAND, dives…

Analyze web traffic [via]

Reality Prose has an excellent analysis on the changing price of LEGO bricks…

David Brooks for The New York Times on the philosophy of data and…

From Reddit user ddurrr while visiting London. Pretty much my current status and…