Nathan Yau

When you plan pinball, the ball bounces around creating paths for itself and…

With Google’s driverless cars now street legal in California, Florida, and Nevada, Gary…

Detailed view of the underbelly of developing and launching maps for a large-scale publication

Images as statistical summaries

Shy data and introducing it to new audiences

Using the Google ngrams corpus, xkcd sized the days of the year based…

There’s a new tumblr in town that discusses process and points to work

Lots of data, but there’s resistance because looking at people through numbers seems wrong

Reverse engineers a vibrator to make it hands-free

Ben Welsh, Robert Lopez, and Kate Linthicum for the Los Angeles Times analyzed…

Now that we’re done giving thanks for all the intangibles like love, friends,…

Studio NAND and Moritz Stefaner, along with Jens Franke explore FIFA development programs…

Projected 18% 10-year job growth

After seeing a timeline on future events as described in novels, designer Giorgia…

They’re sprouting up everywhere; this one in Boston

Was recognized as the most influential infographic designer of the past 20 years at Malofiej

The Floor Charts tumblr shows actual charts used on the United States Congress…

R comes with a lot of datasets, some with the core distribution and…

Spot on. Sadly.

Process post on a two-day mapping session; planning, data, design, code