Nathan Yau

Information visualization firm Periscopic just published a thoughtful interactive piece on gun murders…

Using this Protovis example with Les Misérables

In Waters Re~ artist Xárene Eskandar placed video of the same landscape at…

Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now…

The need for big/small/long data terminology is stupid, but the main points are valid

A comeback for geography

Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US…

The Mercator projection can be useful for giving directions, but when it comes…

Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…

As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom…

Help improve health care with data; $100k prize

A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG

We’ve all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I…

Map of most popular dog names and types by area

An analysis of the board game and gameplay

I’m almost certain this relationship is significant. Side note: Is there a meaningless-correlations…

Arthur Buxton plotted the most common colors of Penguin Publishing science fiction colors…

Run R applications online

How wealthy are the richest people in the world? How do they compare…

A tool that advertises “automatic insights” from complex data, looks like mainly with clustering and network graphs