Nathan Yau

“Anything we can do to squeeze more utility out of the existing infrastructure is going to help.”

I guess it ended up not making much change to the field after all

Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program.…

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…