Nathan Yau

“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…

A collection by Jason Davies of the map projections possible with D3

From the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, these…

Below the Boat produces beautiful laser-cut wood maps:
Starting with a bathymetric chart…

Download the book as a PDF with R code supplement

Tickets don’t go on sale until February, but the first half of the speaker list was revealed. Looks great.