Nathan Yau

The Eyeo Festival, hosted over at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, seems…

Free course from John Hopkins stat prof; also one on straight-up data analysis

Everybody wins

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic on how retail uses our numeric biases to…

WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…

Or telling vs. exploring

They only do what you tell them to do and nothing more i.e. no software is going to make you a data genius

Love is complicated. It twists, it turns, and sometimes it smacks you in…

Interview with Edwin Chen, whose job it is to make sense of tweets

Interesting view that transitions from past to present, weekly to hourly [via]

While we’re on the subject of the web that is Wikipedia, four-man, Baltimore-based…

Brendan Griffen created a giant network of people, using every profile on Wikipedia…

Lets you make a map similar to in the annual reports

Towards reproducibility in research

Well-deserved. Also see her talk at EyeO this year

Last week, the Washington Post compared the ages of Olympians, but it only…

“the more academic papers that economists read, the more misguided they’ll become”

Convert flat data into nested tree structures

Kevin Drum on data is or data are:
Now, I know that lots…

Rebecca Rosen for The Atlantic on why maps aren’t the best interface all…