Nathan Yau

When you focus on all the small events and decisions that happen throughout…

On R is My Friend, as a way to procrastinate on his own…

I don’t know about you, but when I go to YouTube, I check…

Nevermind the horrible traffic in Los Angeles, where it takes a several hours…

Jaz Parkinson made color signatures for classic novels. Basically, mentions of colors were…

Path, a social networking app that lets you track and share personal information about yourself, settled with the FTC for $800k. They allegedly collected kids’ personal information without their parents’ consent. This is from February but important to know.

Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus. Well, about as cool as someone who calls his or herself a data cruncher, anyways.

Geographic Bounding Boxes. A trivial task in a 2-D space, but tricker on sphere.

The poster by Daniel E. Coe shows the life-like historical flows of the…

In parts of the world where there are few smartphones and GPS-enabled devices,…

Paul Miller disconnected from the Internet completely for a year. He describes an experience of at first feeling free and unburdened but eventually feeling lonely and, well, disconnected.

There are over 4,000 Lego minifigure characters ranging from plumbers and judges to…

Where do street names come from? Sometimes there’s actual history behind a name,…

Kevin Jamieson, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at the University of…

Ben Orlin likes math and teaching. He’s bad at drawing. He has a…

Jake Porway, the founder of DataKind, has a new show on the National…

Mike Bostock continues to beef up the documentation and tutorials for D3. This one for selections.

In this straightforward video, Marius Budin offers a look at our insecurities as…

Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…