Nathan Yau

The number of tools to record bits of your life in numbers grows, and it’s starting to look less weird.

You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…

Slides from Shan Carter’s lightning talk on the process behind the Obama spending bubbles [via]

“Make statistics as relevant to your audience as possible and put the numbers into a context that people can instantly grasp.” [via]

In a similar fashion to their work in Britain from Above, CGI and…

Campaign by the Royal Statistical Society to help the general public understand and not shy away from statistics [via]

Use of Force layout, collision detection, and transitions to make this graphic from The New York Times

Lets you easily create online and interactive, event-based timelines and share them

When you use the same password for every online account, there could be…

Oldie but a goodie

World Bank snuggles up with Google

This talk by Bret Victor caught fire a few days ago, but I…

You knew this was coming, right? The New York Times describes the point…

Getting closer to interactive text books

A Boy Scout is always prepared.

See also: Bristol stool chart.…

“The trick, in so far as I’ve observed one, is to pick questions first before you let the data be your guide.”

In the 1980s, students and researchers at UCLA, led by marketing professor Alan…

He does art nowadays, and talks with the BBC how science influences his work

Survey of visual storytelling

Taking the next step in the Wolfram|Alpha experiment, Wolfram launches a Pro version…