Nathan Yau

To evaluate how good maps are

With the Titanic anniversary this year, Chiqui Esteban dug up graphics back from…

With The Avengers coming out today in the US, artist Jer Thorp had…

Profile of chief bitly scientist Hilary Mason, data hacker at large

Simple graphs in R but effective

I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…

A while back, Robert Kosara and Caroline Ziemkiewicz shared their work on Parallel…

There’s a lot of tracking as your browse the net, and here’s how to limit the bits of you data you put out there

Font to put histograms in your text files

Tutorial on built-in formatting

Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…

The slow decay of digital content, and as a result, history

Short interview with Hilary Mason

Doghouse Diaries maps bed regions. I relate to this. [Thanks, Robert]…

PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of…

Setting expectations in data science projects. Wide range of possibilities, set concrete goals

Discussing data and online journalism

What used to be a small specialty in a few newsrooms has grown…

The MIT SENSEable City Lab, in partnership with BBVA, visualizes spending in Spain…

Author of “How to Lie with Statistics” was a consultant to the tabacco industry