Nathan Yau

The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file…

Make basic online flow diagrams

Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…

Discussion thread on mapping with the JavaScript library

From illustrator Stephen Wildish: the pancake venn diagram. Is it Friday yet? [via]…

A subreddit for data

JavaScript library for choropleth, proportional symbol, cartogram, dot density, and isoline mapping

It was bound to happen at some point. Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling,…

We intentionally and unintentionally put data in places like Facebook and Google but…

NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…

“Wolfram|Alpha is now on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”

Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…

Brian Hayes for American Scientist discusses science publications’ roots in print and the…

Five and a half years ago, Netflix offered data and a $1 million…

Built on top of D3 for easier time series charts

Open source alternative to the high-priced commercial GIS software

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…

Six-week post-doc training fellowship to form bridges across academia and practice

The Guardian Datablog posted a choropleth map; readers helped them fix it

Loss for the Bureau, a gain for the university