Nathan Yau

Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…

My many thanks to the sponsors. FlowingData wouldn’t be around without them. Check…

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…

Director of Research at Google talks data, back from 2010 and how they use it the big G [via]

And you can join them; they posted a job in the forums [via]

Celebrating their 100th birthday, Oreo depicts moments in history with the ever popular…

From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of…

Examples of poorly conceived graphics; easy to find these days

At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…

Redesign of popular brands. I like the one for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

A small blip in the otherwise straight Papuan border; from Frank Jacobs’ Borderlines op-ed column that has apparently been going since last year

Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform Geoloqi, has collected his location every few…

The Iliad is an epic poem by Homer with a lot of characters…

A story of bots on Amazon and weird pricing. I saw a little bit of this with Visualize This. At one point there was a couple of “used” books that were nearly twice the retail price.

Lots and lots of them, going back to the 50s

Process of putting this together

Jay Jacobs has some fun with roulette simulations and explores the odds of…

A good guide to getting started with crowdsourcing [via]

Arguing against using standard or established algorithms for serious data art; then the counterargument