Nathan Yau

Examples of poorly conceived graphics; easy to find these days

At first I thought this map, by David Yanofsky for Bloomberg, was your…

Redesign of popular brands. I like the one for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

A small blip in the otherwise straight Papuan border; from Frank Jacobs’ Borderlines op-ed column that has apparently been going since last year

Aaron Parecki, co-creator of location platform Geoloqi, has collected his location every few…

The Iliad is an epic poem by Homer with a lot of characters…

A story of bots on Amazon and weird pricing. I saw a little bit of this with Visualize This. At one point there was a couple of “used” books that were nearly twice the retail price.

Lots and lots of them, going back to the 50s

Process of putting this together

Jay Jacobs has some fun with roulette simulations and explores the odds of…

A good guide to getting started with crowdsourcing [via]

Arguing against using standard or established algorithms for serious data art; then the counterargument

Heading towards the 2012 Olympics in London, Quayola and Memo Aktenvia translate athletic…

From data supplier to software service provider

Kirk Goldsberry, an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State, applies his skills…

Plotting library in Python

In a follow-up to their crime map, Trulia compares number of violent crimes to non-violent ones for a more insightful view [via]

As a complement to Shan Carter’s exit poll dancing boxes, The New York…

I posted this a while back, but they had to take it down for some reason. It’s back now. Features interviews with Casey Reas, Amanda Cox, and others