Nathan Yau

A career in statistics. Lots to be excited about.

Terminology popularized by Tufte, complete with oft-repeated quote conclusion, “There is no such thing as information overload. Only bad design.” Note: None of these words will help you visualize data better.

Diego Valle-Jones maps homicides and trafficking routes in Mexico.
To unclutter the map…

You would think that something so concrete, carefully recorded by authorities, wouldn’t be…

Nine-part series, so far, on getting started with the JavaScript library

“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]

Free webinar on February 8 from Hadley Wickham on his popular R graphics package. There’ll be a brief overview, sneak peek at new features, and lessons learned for good development.

Leading up to this year’s event, most of the talks from last year’s are up. This year’s speaker lineup looks even better. A must if you’re interested in visualization outside of analytics.

I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…

Proper ranking, instead of just using raw values [via]

What they are, when to use them and when not to

Yahoo is not what it used to be, but many parts of it…

Slides and some sample code for an intro to the software [via]

Companies, especially tech ones, like to spout numbers, but when you actually look, the numbers are often meaningless. [via]

Data is hot right now, so as you would expect, more people are…

Priceonomics takes the association of fixie bikes to hipsters, and creates the Fixie…

Recap of the graphics used. The streaming enhanced version was struggling for me the other night, so I had to go with the non-chartified version.

Processing/Java library to create thematic maps and geovisualizations [via]

There are a lot of ways to collect your location, whether it’s for…

custom maps are all the rage these days