Nathan Yau

From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github

Roundup of interactives to explore tweets, retweets, and connections

Discussion from a variety of fields, including my adviser

“Work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification.” Applies especially well to data designers [via]

Kaiser Fung talks about the suck of overlaying plots to show a relationship.…

In a study by TheLadders (of n equals 30), recruiters looked at resumes…

The Washington Post asked three “young entrepreneurs” how their company uses infographics. They…

Seems promising, if you have access to Science

“I have a goal in life: To rid the world of bad PowerPoint slides.”

An almost two-hour long, analytics-focused talk

In usual xkcd fashion, Randall Munroe plots the depths of lakes and oceans,…

By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…

Tips and tricks for making your own maps

More organized and less chaotic than previously thought

The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab,…

George E.P. Box, a statistician known for his body of work in time…

Make your own local Ben Fry-esque All Streets

After reading another article about the flood of data that we’re drowning and…

How Square built a responsive analytics page

Well, a lot of people are these days. There are some pointers in here though how not to do it crappy.