Nathan Yau

Play, ask a question, sketch, crunch, and build

“When you live in an isolated nation with a population roughly the size of Pittsburgh, accidentally lusting after a cousin is an all-too-real possibility.”

Free webcast from O’Reilly coming up this Thursday, as Strata conference nears

With Obama’s recent budget for next year proposed, Shan Carter et. al of…

Stamen describes the process behind their latest interactive maps for Esquire

Free computer science books available as PDFs. The two most recent: Think Complexity (exploration with Python) and Think Stats

I think this R thing is legit

For those who die a little inside every time they see a word…

Plenty of potential but a long way to go for real accuracy

More hoorah for the data. Something in the water over at NYT or data is just that cool. Latter.

Esquire invited a handful of map-makers to represent the United States outside its…

Nate Silver looks at past players who have scored 20 or more points,…

Expressing his ultimate love for the software

In a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Dancing Plague of 1518, Niege Borges illustrates…

A refocused challenge to provide the news, now “more nimble and more focused” with three rounds per year. Should be some great things that come out of this [via]

Critique of a Charles Booth poverty map rework

The method in real life

How we perceive and how we should use them

While we’re on the topic of things moving on a map of changing…