Nathan Yau

Make a sound sculpture from any YouTube video

During a two-week visualization course, Momo Miyazaki, Manas Karambelkar, and Kenneth Aleksander Robertsen…

A look back on an old collection

New Scientist mapped global temperature change based on a NASA GISTEMP analysis.
The…

Still building the speaker list, but Amanda Cox is the keynote speaker, so it should be worth it just to hear her talk.

“weaving stories and data”

When it was time to settle down with the right man, Amy Webb…

On February 2 and 3, analyze money’s influence on politics

Jeff Clark took a detailed look at Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables via character…

The Lotr Project breaks down the thought process in the magical mind.…

Free PDF download version for second edition of book [via]

Creator of the first Statistical Atlas of the United States

Run for your lives. The red concentric circles on the green squiggly are…

Just imagine the possibilities.

By Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho, “This is a walk made out of the…

An argument against the buzz around the dire need for data scientists; some stuff to disagree with but some good points

Big data is just a bunch of numbers; computers will do the brute force labor, but you still have to use your brain.

This is how marketers see visualization and information graphics. Glorified spam, kind of.

I made a graphic a while back that showed traffic fatalities over a…

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a look at the percentage of academic…