Nathan Yau

My friends just got this for me, and it’s pretty much the perfect…

Bringing the human to data

Tom Cheesman of Swansea University, along with Kevin Flanagan and Studio NAND, dives…

Analyze web traffic [via]

Reality Prose has an excellent analysis on the changing price of LEGO bricks…

David Brooks for The New York Times on the philosophy of data and…

From Reddit user ddurrr while visiting London. Pretty much my current status and…

Information visualization firm Periscopic just published a thoughtful interactive piece on gun murders…

Using this Protovis example with Les Misérables

In Waters Re~ artist Xárene Eskandar placed video of the same landscape at…

Ritchie King for Quartz compared money spent on Super Bowl ads — now…

The need for big/small/long data terminology is stupid, but the main points are valid

A comeback for geography

Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US…

The Mercator projection can be useful for giving directions, but when it comes…

Carlos Scheidegger and Kenny Shirley, along with Chris Volinsky, visualized Major League Baseball…

As the Super Bowl draws near, Facebook took a look at football fandom…

Help improve health care with data; $100k prize

A lightweight library for manipulating and animating SVG

We’ve all seen rain maps for a sliver of time. Screw that. I…