Nathan Yau

NYU ITP graduate student Federico Zannier collected data about himself — online browsing,…

PBS Off Book’s recent episode is on “the art of data visualization.” It…

We’ve seen plenty of augmented reality where you put on some digitally-enabled glasses…

MapBox implemented vector tiles for both scalability and flexibility. “MapBox has developed an open source vector format to power the future of our web maps. Vector tiles rethink web maps from the ground up, providing a single efficient format to power raster tiles, interactive features, geojson streams, mobile renderers, and much more.” Be sure to scroll down to the examples.

About 35,000 meteorites have been recorded since 2500 BC, and a little over…

Nate Silver topped Fast Company’s list of 100 most creative people in business.

In collaboration between USGS, NASA and TIME, Google released a quarter century of…

After seeing a Reddit post on the convergence of Miss Korea faces, supposedly…

Deadspin made a straightforward map that shows the highest paid public employee in…

The quality of television shows follow all kinds of patterns. Some shows stink…

Jerome Cukier describes the process behind making his Game of Thrones interactive.

Watch Arrested Development enough and you start to realize there are a lot…

On Wikipedia, there are constant edits by people around the world. You can…

In a follow-up to their map of racist tweets towards Barack Obama, the…

A Guide to Speeding Up R Code for Busy People. R can be slow at times. Here are some tips on getting it to go faster.

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since Data Points: Visualization…

This is my first time hearing about this, probably because it only happens…

GeoGuessr is a game of location. It plops you somewhere in the world via Google street view, and you figure out where you ara. The closer you are, the more points you get.

How to create a hexagonal cartogram using a combination of ArcGIS, Python, and D3.

Terrence Fradet of Fathom Information Design ponders whether metro maps suffer or benefit…