Nathan Yau

New course on how social, economic and technological structures interact

Video tutorials on using Illustrator by professor Mike Wirth

Alberto Cairo’s newly translated book on information graphics, The Functional Art, is a…

Old, but I keep coming back to it. Simple use of ImportHtml() function brings an HTML table into spreadsheet

As part of the Stories initiative that Facebook launched yesterday, an interactive map…

Kat Downs, Laura Stanton and Karen Yourish of The Washington Post look at…

After he saw a New York Times article on the gender gap among…

Tutorial based on the NYT graphic on word use at the National Conventions

Including the Economist, Stata, and oh yes, Excel 2003 [via]

Nate Silver says the weatherman is not a moron.
Still, most people take…

From data graphics to art, it’s a continuous spectrum; last sentence of article includes a lot more people though

A wishful syllabus by NPR news app head

Ways to display data based on vision and variables

Taking it from paper and pencil sketch to illustration

The elections season is in full swing, and the New York Times graphics…

The 8-inch cube RGB Colorspace Atlas by artist Tauba Auerbach shows every color…

Just got a copy, and it looks like a good one. Review to come.

With new tools that make running statistical tests straightforward, the two statisticians worry about pseudo-analysis. On the other hand, if the tech is trivial, there’s more time for learning the concepts (and teaching them).

Visualization for stories that move you

The popular R graphing package now lets you easily change aesthetics