Nathan Yau

When I was a kid, I drank a lot of milk, and bottled…

One of the things that makes AI seem neat is that it sometimes…

The world is getting older overall. For The New York Times, Lauren Leatherby…

Bell System’s monopoly broke up in 1984 leading to independent phone companies, which…

With all the new tools available, maybe it’s time to add to the existing toolset.

For Rest of World, Andrew Deck turned the AI focus on outsourced workers,…

For graphing on the go, Present & Correct offers a rubber stamp with…

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela…

This might surprise you, but the grass at the Wimbledon tennis tournament is…

For NYT Opinion, Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens, with graphics by Quoctrung…

There are many tools, which makes it tempting to learn them all. Instead, learn one tool really well and the logic carries over to the others.

The Washington Post provides an introduction to fonts with mini-quizzes and straightforward examples.…

xkcd provides the analysis we all need. I can’t believe Jupiter scored so…

Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest, so gross to watch but impossible to…

From the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab, Mosaic is a research project…

Advertising funds a big chunk of the web, but for advertisers to continue…

Here’s the good stuff for June.

It seems to have grown more common for basketball fans to complain that…

The New York Times explores how noise impacts health:
Anyone who lives in…

Password rules seem to get more strict and weird over time. Neal Agarwal…