Nathan Yau

It seems kind of out of place on the Typekit blog, but a pretty good rundown of the charting basics

Impressive demos from Robert Hodgins’ talk at Eyeo, plus code on GitHub

Remember geographer Kirk Goldsberry’s analysis of shot efficiency on the basketball court? Jeremy…

Information visualization firm Periscopic, in collaboration with GE, explores the makeup of the…

Avoid clutter caused by too many dots in one place

For “real-life scenarios” [via]

With Jake Porway leading the way, there’s no doubt the blooming organization is headed for great things.

Twitter engineers Miguel Rios and Jimmy Lin explored tweet volumes in different cities…

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…

Review data released around thirty universities for research purposes [via]

Force nodes into grid format; see demo

There are various connections between Stephen King novels. Gillian James puts them in…

Using world flights with ggplot2. See also.

You would think that fat content and calorie counts would be straightforward by…

From Fluffware, here’s a fine reminder to always label your axes. See, it’s…

Script to fill in the gaps between unevenly spaced points

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…