Nathan Yau

It only took a kajillion dollars, but they finally have one

Maximum vector length making its way to 2⁵²; “That’s a lot of McNuggets.”

The Washington Post has a fine graphic on swimming world records and the…

Applying new techniques to old Census data

Stupid 10-second rule

Results from Pew survey on what to look forward to and what not to

Layers of a data-driven application

Data science: tools vs. craft. It takes more than a program to do something useful.

Carnegie Mellon statistics professor Cosma Shalizi considers the differences and similarities between statistics…

Adam Cole and Nelson Hsu for NPR plotted the percentage of people, ages…

Using the same tech Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas created to show wind…

Reducing complexity

“I’m a firm believer in finding the smartest people you can, and letting them use whatever works best.”

If you want to learn visualization, you should learn data. To learn data,…

Need something i.e. ideas or data for people to talk about

Technically impressive, but usually not useful for real decisions

Designer Matthew Olin unmasked the characters behind the typeface characters for his MFA…

Geographers James Cheshire and Oliver O’Brien visualized life expectancy in London as a…

Graphic on the data that they have; probably would’ve been a lot easier to read as a grid instead of a circle

Making a bunch of maps using maptools in R; actually really easy once you have the data