Nathan Yau

Botanicus Interacticus from Disney Research turns plants into multi-touch surfaces, simply by placing…

From the department of old-but-new-to-me, Pop Chart Lab charted the evolution of video…

So much hype and funding for big data, but statistics as a field of study seems to be lost

Vulture plotted Meryl Streep’s character faces on a cold-warm, frivolous-serious scatterplot. Sure, why…

Twitter releases HDFS-DU to explore what’s going on in your clusters

Don’t like the title, but the (free) report could be worthwhile

Brian Ball and M. E. J. Newman analyzed friendship data from a high…

Improving on gradient-filled bar charts with clarity [via]

Mostly a correlation with geography

Easy way to add a pie chart as your favicon, to update loading progress

Streamgraph seems to be growing into de facto chart type for Twitter trends

They just need to learn how to use bar charts

Expanding on his Vincent van Gogh pie charts, Arthur Buxton minimalized famous paintings…

Renee DiResta got to wondering about state stereotypes, so she looked them up…

A critique of the arms trade interactive from Google

Thousands of people have attended Edward Tufte’s one-day course on data graphics. Robert…

Tutorials on working with government data

Redesign kinda works, but some might argue that Wikipedia’s barebones approach is a reason for its success

I went on a backup spree after reading this

Meters, by Berlin-based designers Patrick Kochlik and Monika Hoinkis, celebrates the joy of…