Nathan Yau

National Geographic imagined new coastlines (and the cities that would go under) if…

We’ve seen what happens when you turn on a Roomba and track its…

The Open Knowledge Foundation launched the Open Data Index, so you can see…

We know that millions of Americans move to different counties every year, and…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their most recent cancer data…

There comes a time late at night when your screen grows fuzzy and…

The Simply Statistics unconference just started a few minutes ago. Tune in live…

With a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, Waldo Jaquith pushes forward with…

Betrand Russell: “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty —…

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack attempts to disable a site or…

Looking for a job in data science, visualization, or analytics? There are openings…

Nice one, xkcd.…

A quick animated look on the evolution of western dance music, a mixture…

You’ve probably heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea is…

Reuben Fischer-Baum looks at the most popular girl names by state, over the…

Peter J. Rentfrow, et al. studied personality clusters across states using data from…

A challenge these days with visualization is that a piece might look great…

It’s been continuous tracking and monitoring for the past couple of days and…

Those who use the ggplot2 package in R and do everything else in…