Nathan Yau

Helping governments share ideas on how to make use of open data

Get it running smoothly

I like how a Twitter data scientist is working on a Facebook challenege

In partnership with social analytics service Topsy, Twitter launched a Political Index that…

Some consider Nigel Holmes, whose work tends to be more illustrative, the opposite…

Working from the command line [via]

“big data is becoming more pervasive to society”

Author is misguided and clearly doesn’t work with data

Maybe we should get rid of reading and writing, too

The Wall Street Journal visualized major political contributions, according to the Federal Election…

Peter Nitsch created Ascii Street View, converting Google Street View to colored letters.…

Should be complete, timely, not in aggregate

Using a new kind of MRI scanner, scientists at the National Institutes of…

Ruslan Enikeev created a searchable Internet map of links and bubbles, showing over…

From the Guardian US, a simple site that tells you if a record…

No doubt there is going to be a lot of tweeting about the…

A lot of Olympic events are over and done with in a few…

Lee Drutman, a Senior Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, compared the tax returns…

Google releases API to make rooms digitally interactive

Another site to turn your personal data into an infographic. Why?