Nathan Yau

Obtain, scrub, explore, model, and interpret [via]

I get kind of giddy whenever I see a tweet from Martin Wattenberg…

Jer Thorp releases the source code for his Kepler visualization

Making use of data from the Federal Election Commission and The New York…

“If TV stations won’t post their data on political ads, we will.”

Former Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek remembers one stressful night of infographic-making.

Steps behind Stamen’s beautiful computer-generated maps that easily pass for handmade

Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean,…

Giant archive from different years and locations. Yeah, the Internet has everything.

Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of…

Learn to code and edit wisely

Just choose the location you want via the Google Maps interface, pick what…

As the big G charges for map services, some applications are going custom

Improve code performance, knowing what R is actually doing [via]

As expected, the newspaper and site win top honors in the annual awards with Best of Show going to their graphics on Guantanamo detainees

Designer Matt Dempsey explains the storyline of Inception in this fun experiment. There…

Adam Savage of Mythbusters gives a short talk on simple ideas leading to…

Background from Fathom on their latest piece with GE, which explores keywords in annual reports

JavaScript library to easily draw network graphs

A lesson in not getting too obsessed with your tools and losing sight of original design goals