Nathan Yau

Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…

“the more academic papers that economists read, the more misguided they’ll become”

Convert flat data into nested tree structures

Kevin Drum on data is or data are:
Now, I know that lots…

Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic on why maps aren’t the best interface all…

Nicolas Rapp, for Fortune Magazine, mapped the underwater cables that make the global…

I think the theme of this year’s Olympic graphics is how you relate…

Robert Kosara’s response to this

Some fun ones

Rundown of the struggling state of those rooted in the paper medium

Process behind a couple of Periscopic pieces with non-profit organization, on endangered species

“will need to scale in terms of performance, density, and interactivity”

New weekly from xkcd, answering all the important questions of the universe

Artist Bard Edlund sonified the goals during the 2012 Stanley Cup.
The goals…

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, explored the geographic differences in language…

Animator and illustrator Rufus Blacklock animated 60 years of Formula One race car…

Unlike Daniel LaRusso, most students need context for the importance and meaning of concepts to soak through [via]

You know, the one with all the lines and shading

For airports, shopping, and such

Researchers trying to get kids to understand randomness