Nathan Yau

Plotting library in Python

In a follow-up to their crime map, Trulia compares number of violent crimes to non-violent ones for a more insightful view [via]

As a complement to Shan Carter’s exit poll dancing boxes, The New York…

I posted this a while back, but they had to take it down for some reason. It’s back now. Features interviews with Casey Reas, Amanda Cox, and others

More data, more we need to make sure our identity is safe

Kitchen Budapest explores local news coverage in Hungary with sound and a bubbling…

Interactive editor of The Guardian, formerly of NYT and News Corp.

His talk will be live-streamed tonight at 7pm EST

Stephen Wolfram examines his archive of personal data from emails to keystrokes to…

Three graphs, same data from different angles [via]

Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting…

James Cheshire ponders the difference between fast and slow thinking maps, and the…

Choppy but a good start

Gregor Aisch wanted a better way to make maps online that allowed something…

Great slide deck from Mike Bostock’s D3 workshop; a must for anyone new to the library

I missed this one a while back, but The New York Times had…

Do the math yourself and save readers the trouble; also more informative a lot of the time

His annual report came out recently; the interviews follow

This came via Twitter from @christopferd:
Will @flowingdata caption my 2 yr old’s…

Jer Thorp, a data artist in residence at The New York Times, shows…