Nathan Yau

His annual report came out recently; the interviews follow

This came via Twitter from @christopferd:
Will @flowingdata caption my 2 yr old’s…

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…

How-tos from around the Web for R, D3, and the now-defunct Protovis [via]

“APIs are for nerds (Nerds who build freaking awesome sports stuff.)” [via]

In this simple interactive animation by Periscopic, in partnership with UNICEF, we see…

Why, what and how of open data from Open Knowledge Foundation

Free ebook on making use of open government data [via]

Interactive visualization continues to grow more useful and prominent in every day analysis.…

Newest version of the R graphics package contains a lot of new features and updates

Guardian asks actual data scientists what data science is. Recurring theme is a blending.

The quantified self movement continues:
This may sound creepy, but tens of thousands…

Other than with base R functionality, people typically use Lattice or ggplot2. In this multi-part post, lattice plots are recreated with ggplot2, code snippets included

Movies are a curious business. There a variety of forces that encourage people…

Lightweight library for time series charts

Inversion for clarity; interesting use of gradient

In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…

The difference:
In this animated short, the relationship between trend and variation are…

Newsrooms are changing and some embrace the growth of data-driven stories. Others not so much [via]

Continuing to spread their seeds of knowledge. Strive for clear and simple, learn to code, and sketch a lot. [via]