Nathan Yau

Comparison to gas, selling the stuff that makes it useful vs. the raw material

Start with very basic then work your way up

Feeding off the momentum from Stephen Wolfram’s personal analytics earlier this year, Wolfram|Alpha…

From the social media point of view

Horace Mitchell, director of the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio discusses the process behind…

Using gradient to show confidence intervals

The fictional map of physics by Bernard H. Porter in 1939 reads:
Containing…

Making of Perpetual Ocean. NASA interview on how they made this; surprisingly, they used Maya and RenderMan

Photographer David Johnson took long-exposure shots of fireworks. Fireworks already leave trails when…

Having data is just the beginning

“Prices starting at $4,000” sounds so not worth it

Randal Heeb convinced a New York City judge that poker isn’t a game…

Five types, plus an endangered species; sized by party loyalty

Josh Cothran looked at who’s paid for healthcare over the past five decades,…

Using animation package, produce a lot of GIFs and string them together

As megafires in the Southwest are becoming the new normal, NPR reports in…

Not sure why some want to do everything in R, but here you go

Interview with artist Jer Thorp

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…

Lev Manovich on painting data and the parallels between visualization and realist art. I like the metaphor. Although I’d argue that most data art does preserve relationships in the data.