Nathan Yau

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

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
— George E. P.…

Whoa. What did I just read?
I think most of you know of…

Using image processing in the software, someone figured out how to find the elusive one in an image [via]

A couple of years ago, when you thought about online interactive maps, what…

Periscopic follows up ten months after their first side-by-side. For maximum reach across browsers, Flash is still ahead, but HTML5 has made huge strides in a short amount of time.

For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical…

Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with GE, visualizes GE annual reports from 1892…

“A font you can use in your web apps when you want tiny state shapes as a design element”

Carbon output. We want to reduce it, but some countries have a longer…

Code examples and summaries to find groups in your data, such as the one that likes wings and beer and the other that likes tofu and soba noodles [via]

UC San Diego student Cyrus Kiani animates 5,930 front pages from The Hawaiian…

Remember Bret Victor’s live coding talk from last month? He presented an example…

JavaScript library for fast filtering of large multivariate datasets and multiple views

Donated by users for research in recommendation systems

Inspired by D3, a visualization library in Clojure

There’s going to be an API for the monitoring band. I want to get one now.

Big History is a field of study that crosses multiple disciplines such as…

My many thanks to the sponsors. FlowingData wouldn’t be around without them. Check…

With NCAA March Madness in full swing, the basketball graphics are out in…