Nathan Yau

You gotta crawl before you can walk and run

I’m not sure what these digitally rendered Lego blocks by JR Schmidt represent,…

A kickstarter to explore “the convergence of art, science and technology”

“Bayes, duh.”

In a beautiful rendition of the galaxy, Google visualized 100,000 stars, starting at…

Web mining module for Python

Since 2000, the Hewlett Foundation has made over 7,000 grants summing $3.86 billion,…

Slidedeck from Rachel Binx’s talk

“Focus on understanding why the program is doing what it’s doing, rather than why it’s not doing what you wanted it to.”

RStudio, the folks behind the IDE for R released last year, continues to…

RStudio release “makes it super simple for R users like you to turn analyses into interactive web applications”

If you go to the Facebook page for Mitt Romney, note the number…

Design exercise versus straight charts

Meta. Is it people’s interest, or is it actually 50 percent of statistics…

I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…

After seeing this post that highlights racist tweets after the election, Floating Sheep…

In 1979, Joy Division released their album Unknown Pleasures, and the cover was…

Amanda Uren has a fun collection of map-like scans from the 11th century.…

About process and details