Nathan Yau

Axis Maps makes their app free for all. My review from when it launched

It was about five years ago when I got into visualization. Before I…

From Yanni Loukissas of the MIT Laboratory for Automation, Robotics, and Society, comes…

Distribution versus counts

A lot of things, and if anything it’s subjective

Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro play around with a face tracker and color…

Jon Kleinberg, whose work influenced Google’s PageRank, is working on ranking something else.…

Collision in a good way this year [via]

Seth Stevenson, for Slate Magazine, covers cartographer David Imus’ hand-crafted wall map, which…

“The bottom line: in their tests, rebutting misinformation with graphics was shown to be more effective than conveying the same information in written form.”

NYT graphics’ election coverage about to kick into full gear

Candidates’ poll standings using animated horsies. Effective, if a little campy for the masses

With the new year, many of you (myself included) and your employers resolved…

Since D3’s JavaScript, it’s straightforward to hook in a dynamic data source.

While we’re on the topic of academic papers and how they’re linked, Johan…

Searchable records go up in April, although I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high since it’s the government. [via]

From Autodesk Research, Citeology is an interactive that visualizes connections in academic research…

“[Y]ou have to be careful about assuming that the numbers you’ve got access to… really do reflect the underlying phenomena you’re trying to investigate.” Just because the numbers exist, doesn’t mean they’re accurate.

At around the 20-minute mark, Radiolab presents an interview with Nicholas Felton about his annual report.