Nathan Yau

The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering…

During the DOGE-fueled federal firings, which seems like a lifetime ago already, the…

OpenAI introduced GPT-5 in a livestream, and they used a set of seemingly…

Hansi Lo Wang reporting for NPR:
The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number…

Matt Seaton, for the Atlantic, reports on how the statistical approach impacted cycling…

Staying within chart defaults might provide an advantage.

Reuters highlights unsafe temperatures in prison cells, using building models, public records, and…

It’s exciting when an animal escapes from the zoo. A monkey breaks free…

Drew Harwell, reporting for the Washington Post:
Artificial intelligence tools are not just…

N. Gregory Mankiw and Cecilia Rouse, both former chairs of the Council of…

For the New York Times, Steven Strogatz explains taxicab geometry through the lens…

The problem with two-dimensional map projections is distortion creeps in no matter what…

For the New York Times, Ben Casselman highlights the potential repercussions for shunning…

The prior commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics had some things to…

For the Atlantic, Alexandra Petri on the president’s approach to data:
And now,…

The administration disagreed with the jobs count released by the Bureau of Labor…

From Lazaro Gamio, Tony Romm, and Agnes Chang for the New York Times,…

Just One Line is a fun project that recreates city maps with a…

The American Statistical Association released a report last year on the growing challenges…

When you use a chatbot with companies like Google or OpenAI, your chats…