Nathan Yau

Beware of the EXIF data

“Games are not just about making things funny.”

“the first pie chart to display empirical proportions and to differentiate the component parts by color”

Free Princeton course “designed to be a friendly introduction to very simple, very basic, fundamental concepts in statistics” [via]

Bitly chief data scientist on finding data and looking for stories in it [via]

Interview with Jake Porway, founder of Data Without Borders

Bowl, meet spoon.

The BitTorrent protocol lets groups of people download parts of a single file…

Make basic online flow diagrams

Live flight tracking site FlightAware shows destinations and current routes. It’s everyday stuff…

Discussion thread on mapping with the JavaScript library

From illustrator Stephen Wildish: the pancake venn diagram. Is it Friday yet? [via]…

A subreddit for data

JavaScript library for choropleth, proportional symbol, cartogram, dot density, and isoline mapping

It was bound to happen at some point. Doctor and statistician Hans Rosling,…

We intentionally and unintentionally put data in places like Facebook and Google but…

NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…

“Wolfram|Alpha is now on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”

Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…

Brian Hayes for American Scientist discusses science publications’ roots in print and the…