Nathan Yau

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

Use it to verify your gut feelings

Mobile tech advances; so do possibilities

Need to pay attention to what you’re using as an indicator

What they do and how to hire them [via]

Art shop Dorothy made a map with film titles for street names.
The…