Nathan Yau

The method in real life

How we perceive and how we should use them

While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…

Even Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians.…

“What we have to learn to do, and the best way of stopping ourselves from getting embarrassed, is to stop and check that something makes sense.”

I did a Q&A that I thought was for a larger, more general article on visualization. They posted the whole thing. Edward Tufte answered some questions in the first interview of the series.

Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software…

Fixing a busted pie chart

Short interview with Francesco Franchi, art director for IL-Intelligence. From Visual Storytelling book [via]

In a blend of data and storytelling, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison dig…

Like something from of a video game, this graphic from The New York…

Needs to add “for business analytics” in parentheses

Data science has been covered at length during the past couple of years,…

Link to code snippets towards the bottom

New blog by a classmate of mine

Presidential candidates have raised $186 million up to now, according to the Federal…

Untangling network graphs with various methods, such as a matrix diagram

Birds move. eBird shows us how.
Understanding patterns of bird occurrence at continental…