Nathan Yau

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

A group of researchers at Michigan State University, led by Phil Howard, explored…

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from…

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Cartographer Martin Elmer made a truncated history map of the world:
This map…

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On news of the Houston Texans getting ready to build the largest video…

Available in print. See also: a video version. Still no confirmation for whether…

The Earth as Art is a compilation of NASA satellite imagery that shows…

Built-in geographic projections, better transitions, and more extensive asynchronous requests

Jeff Leek, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…

It usually moves the other direction.

What is your effective tax rate now versus years past? Ritchie King made…

Bonnie Berkowitz, Emily Chow and Todd Lindeman for the Washington Post plotted life…

Finally, Twitter rolls out a feature to download all of your tweets as one file. They’re slowly making it available to users.

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The New York Times mapped ratings for members of Congress, as given by…

Primer on network diagrams. See also.