Nathan Yau

I’ve never played Minecraft, but maybe this map showing live server connections means…

Tools are just that, experience is most valuable [via]

Questionable data quality and less funding

“The results showed that when tasks were presented visually rather than using traditional text-based software applications, individuals used around 20% less cognitive resources.”

To evaluate how good maps are

With the Titanic anniversary this year, Chiqui Esteban dug up graphics back from…

With The Avengers coming out today in the US, artist Jer Thorp had…

Profile of chief bitly scientist Hilary Mason, data hacker at large

Simple graphs in R but effective

I’ve been reading papers on how people learn statistics (and thoughts on teaching…

A while back, Robert Kosara and Caroline Ziemkiewicz shared their work on Parallel…

There’s a lot of tracking as your browse the net, and here’s how to limit the bits of you data you put out there

Font to put histograms in your text files

Tutorial on built-in formatting

Glaciers are big, slow-moving objects, and it might seem that not much is…

The slow decay of digital content, and as a result, history

Short interview with Hilary Mason

Doghouse Diaries maps bed regions. I relate to this. [Thanks, Robert]…

PhD student Adrien Friggeri demonstrates a new clustering algorithm with a visualization of…

Setting expectations in data science projects. Wide range of possibilities, set concrete goals