Nathan Yau

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.

Amazon used their book sales data to color a map red and blue.…

It’s not how big, but how you use it

Patterns over averages

Water Light Graffiti is an installation by Antonin Fourneau that lets you use…

Dating back to 1800s, made in 2005 [via]

Using DNA as a storage device, Harvard researchers managed to store one million…

Using OpenStreetMap tasking manager to recruit volunteers to help map expanding area

For the past ten years, researchers have been tagging hump back whales in…

NYT graphics having some fun with this one; maybe overcomplicated for some

Rethinking the pixel

Not out yet, but could be a fun one when it does

Process for finding the right sound just for a few seconds of audio

James Cheshire, a geography lecturer at the University College London, mapped common surnames…

“every ‘on the ball’ event for every Premier League player in every match from the entire 2011-12 Premier League season”

Statisticians should have these installed already

Automate the drudge work for an analysis project in R

Detailed article if you want to learn to analyze words

We’ve seen a lot of network charts for Twitter, Facebook, and real people.…