Nathan Yau

We’ve Reached Peak Infographic, and We’re No Smarter for It. Add another to the list of people who are tired of infographics that don’t say much. Again though, it’s best not to get too bent out of shape over low-quality work, and energy is much better spent working on things that shine.

Do singer-songwriters age well like a fine wine, or does quality decline with…

If you listen to the radio long enough, you’ve probably noticed that many…

Emily Underwood on new cartographers and the growing field:
Geographers have traditionally studied…

Jessica Hagy, the one who made Venn diagrams on index cards popular, has…

It wasn’t long ago that sensors and personal tracking seemed like pure nerdery.…

Each year, Oscar speeches seem to follow a similar format, with familiar names…

Geo Point Plotter by Derek Watkins is a quick and dirty mapper. Copy and paste latitude and longitude coordinates, and you get a simple map with dots on it.

John Snow’s Cholera data in more formats. Includes death locations, pump locations, the original map, and Ordinance Survey maps. This could be useful for a class or if you want to kick the tires on some mapping software.

In a collaboration between PEER 1 Hosting, Steamclock Software, and Jeff Johnston, the…

With Google Reader closing its doors in July (which stinks because I use…

A Globe Hack and Good Old Mercator. An illustration of the Mercator map projection using pennies. There’s some distortion.

Today might be pi day, but yesterday was Feltron Report day. The theme…

It can be tricky picking the right seat at a dinner party. So…

At SXSW, Nate Silver discusses data bias and the strangeness of fame.

In 2007, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas created the word tree, a search…

Jake Porway, executive director of DataKind on data hackathons and why they require…

Self-tracking devices are all the rage these days. I went to the Apple…

Lois Beckett for ProPublica has a thorough piece on data brokers — companies…

Quandl is a search engine for time series data. Similar to DataMarket, but probably with more straightforward download.