Nathan Yau

Possible path drawing in video games [via]

On Craigslist there’s a section in the personals for “missed connections” which lets…

A thorough recap of the event

There’s a corner of my desk reserved for books, notes, papers, and other…

Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, and Mike Bostock for The New York Times, analyzed…

New 2-year program at NYU starting Fall 2013

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

Nifty trick that uses Mapquest API as source

Mostly ugly, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

Lance Hosey, for The New York Times, on design, beauty, and functionality.
We…

Experiences analyzing lots of data and collaborating with computer scientists, data scientists, and quantitative analysts

Jon Millward explored porn star demographics using a data scrape from the Internet…

From NOAA, an animation showing a wave of cold during the Martin Luther…

Helped out some for this NPR article

Neil Freeman reimagined state boundary lines based on population. He started with an…

A handful of experts weighed in on visualization as a spectrum rather than…

With the State of the Union address tonight, The Guardian plotted the Flesh-Kincaid…

Viviana Ferro, Ilaria Pagin, and Elisa Zamarian had a look at all of…

Automatically make a color palette based on color space