Nathan Yau

JavaScript library for reactive documents, as seen in Bret Victor’s talk

Find a balance between the two

Researchers Pengyu Zhua and Yaoqi Zhang noted in their 2008 paper that “the…

As part of their mission to reform destructive fishing practices, Ocean2012 explains the…

New York University graduate student Josh Begley grabbed 4,916 satellite images of prisons…

Lovely set of slides by Sha Hwang on the awe from from data

Old but all still applicable

Wireless network SSIDs in residential areas are typically left on default router names…

New Knight News Challenge is focused on data. $5m in funding this round.

Hadley Wickham started posting uses of the popular R graphics package

Gotta get it in the right format before you visualize anything

Probably after seeing what Jer Thorp did as one at NYT, the shortlink service is out the lookout

jQuery plugin that associates HTML vocabulary “making it frighteningly easy to make web-native geographic maps”

Makes using Google Maps API trivial

By Dan Piraro of Bizarro Comics. This is what happens when you don’t…

Her workflow at NYT

An argument for defaulting to density plots. Doesn’t pan out for smaller datasets

Impressive graph drawing library. Check out the demos linked part way down.