Nathan Yau

Big data is just a bunch of numbers; computers will do the brute force labor, but you still have to use your brain.

This is how marketers see visualization and information graphics. Glorified spam, kind of.

I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a look at the percentage of academic…

A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3

From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these…

Below the Boat produces beautiful laser-cut wood maps:
Starting with a bathymetric chart…

Download the book as a PDF with R code supplement

Tickets don’t go on sale until February, but the first half of the speaker list was revealed. Looks great.

A group of researchers at Michigan State University, led by Phil Howard, explored…

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from…

Highlights from the world’s best graphics department in journalism

Cartographer Martin Elmer made a truncated history map of the world:
This map…

Using powers for good to improve education

On news of the Houston Texans getting ready to build the largest video…

Available in print. See also: a video version. Still no confirmation for whether…

The Earth as Art is a compilation of NASA satellite imagery that shows…

Built-in geographic projections, better transitions, and more extensive asynchronous requests

Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…

It usually moves the other direction.