Nathan Yau

A shift in focus for the once data consumer focused site. This not long after Infochimps launches their big data platform geared towards developers. It’ll be interesting to see what these two are like in three years.

A classic case of “I’m not in your territory. Just look at Google Maps.”

“But in the long run, it becomes pleasurable and even addictive.”

On February 29, 2000, R 1.0.0 was released

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…

Sold out conference, but you can catch some of the talks here

Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know…

Lightning talk on grabbing data from pages with JavaScript [via]

Calling out The New York Times for an incorrect reference to the Law of Large Numbers. Also this

“Target doesn’t just know when you’re buying sheets. They know what you’re doing…

A quick take on what visualization is to me

Making public the tools they developed internally to handle data themselves

New York Times editor Aron Pilhofer on using data as the source of reports. “It’s not rocket science.” [via]

When Nicholas Felton headed over to Facebook last year, I thought we’d seen…

Quick steps on the graphic design part of visualization from Lev Manovich

Sometimes power dunks don’t get much credit, because it’s hard to see on…

Three-part tutorial on making non-ugly choropleth maps in R. This is part one. Then there’s part 2 and 3. The blog is a mix of English and Spanish(?), but it might be one worth following. [via]

Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…

Desktop tool that changes colors of entire screen to simulate color blindness