Nathan Yau

NPR has a look at weekly drought figures over the past couple of…

“Wolfram|Alpha is now on average giving complete, successful responses to more than 90% of the queries entered on its website”

Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…

Brian Hayes for American Scientist discusses science publications’ roots in print and the…

Five and a half years ago, Netflix offered data and a $1 million…

Built on top of D3 for easier time series charts

Open source alternative to the high-priced commercial GIS software

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…

Six-week post-doc training fellowship to form bridges across academia and practice

The Guardian Datablog posted a choropleth map; readers helped them fix it

Loss for the Bureau, a gain for the university

Three or four articles on the gender wage gap popped up on my radar last week, some focusing on the rise of women as the lead household earner and others on how much less women make. I took a look.

How they play a role in human-computer interaction and evaluating them

The steps behind making NYT map in R, showing where Rick Santorum stood before he suspended his campaign

Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…

From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github

Roundup of interactives to explore tweets, retweets, and connections

Discussion from a variety of fields, including my adviser

“Work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification.” Applies especially well to data designers [via]

Kaiser Fung talks about the suck of overlaying plots to show a relationship.…