Nathan Yau

As part of their campaign to prioritize education and get presidential candidates talking…

jQuery plugin that converts an element’s content into a mini pie, line, or bar chart [via]

Open source data visualization, geared towards journalists

New software as they continue on with their Smarter Planet push [via]

In Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste from…

The flood. The avalanche. The tsunami. Drowning in data. For the past few…

Keeping it simple and highlighting what’s important

Another online dashboard maker; has a demo you can use with your Gmail

Critique and remake of a widely spread but poorly made chart

Hooktheory, a system for learning to write music, analyzed 1,300 popular songs for…

Kalev H. Leetaru animated world sentiment over time, based on Wikipedia entries.
See…

Bostock keeps on churning, redering GeoJSON shapes

Molecular astrophysicist Invader Xan drew spaceships, real and fictional, to scale.
This, my…

Online maps have made it easy to find directions from point A to…

Tips for Grad Students in Statistics. Oh, now they tell me.

Stumbled on this year old article by Daniel J. Solove professor of law at George Washington University

Short video on the process

In an article for Significance Magazine, economists Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert…

Dave Delisle mapped the Toronto TTC Subway in the style of Super Mario…

“Albro worries that the hype over Big Data is warming up for Big Disappointment down the road.”