Nathan Yau

Things to consider before you make a graphic

Robert Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on the Appropriations Bill:
The…

Forgot to include exploration in the beginning, otherwise fine

In-house maps coming to iOS6; was just a matter of time

Princeton history graduate student Benjamin Schmidt explores changes in language through TV anachronisms.…

“challenge is balancing the tension between exploration and presentation”

Music visualization with stop motion board games. You can’t go wrong.

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“What if we started using data, not just to ask what type of movie we wanted but to see but what type of world we want to see?”

Works in Internet Explorer. People still use that browser?

Detailed look at the force required for such a feat

Jerzy Wieczorek, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau, explains why the American…

Last month Republicans were pushing a bill to get rid of the American…

The Guardian process for this impressive interactive

Can be integrated in a number of ways

Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a…

Gay rights vary across states and by region. The Guardian US interactive team…

Geographic inconsistencies in iconic New York subway map

The series premiere of United Stats of America (See what they did there?)…

Researchers at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University investigate the…

Keep on whittling until you get to the storyline