Nathan Yau

A couple of years ago, xkcd ran a survey that asked people to…

Some background on a connected scatterplot by Hannah Fairfield

Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil give the rundown on what a data…

It’s another label-your-axes joke from SMBC. Yep, still funny.
See also: this, this,…

Common sense is useful.

Integral to the data design process

Fetching tweets and metadata

This month the Netherlands held national elections, and now that the results are…

Good explanation of the method to find centers of density, with interactive demos

I’m not sure what I’d do with Ablaze.js, a JavaScript library by Patrick…

Open source PDF, although looks pretty technical on first glance

And visualization is useless without data; you do the math.

The Forest of Advocacy is a series of animations that explores the political…

When you Google “bacon number” followed by an actor’s name, you’ll get the degrees of separation

Slick demo showing what projections preserve and lose

Aaron Rueben and Gabriel Isaacman used data from sampling air in tunnels, where…

Emily Chow, Ted Mellnik, and Karen Yourish for The Washington Post mapped where…

New course on how social, economic and technological structures interact

Video tutorials on using Illustrator by professor Mike Wirth

Alberto Cairo’s newly translated book on information graphics, The Functional Art, is a…