Nathan Yau

Designing a programming systems for understanding programs

Tips on visualization for advocacy [via]

Hey, I think it’s election season, and you know what that means. It’s…

In the latest Chrome experiment, Google mapped cloud coverage around the world in…

Jo Wood, a professor of visual analytics, visualized five million bike rides using…

The statisticians are still gaga over this. Here’s more code to do it.

Now that you know how color labeling changes by gender, I bet you’re…

Not just Arial

“simple models can close the accuracy gap when applied to large data sets”

Visualization is a great way to explain and describe data to people who…

I’m so glad there are people like Jake Porway in the world. The…

I’m late to this party. TileMill, by mapping platform MapBox, is open source…

During the Olympics, Studio NAND, Moritz Stefaner, and Drew Hemment tracked Twitter sentiment…

Locations that don’t exist, melting cities, and roads in the clouds

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