Nathan Yau

I did a Q&A that I thought was for a larger, more general article on visualization. They posted the whole thing. Edward Tufte answered some questions in the first interview of the series.

Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software…

Fixing a busted pie chart

Short interview with Francesco Franchi, art director for IL-Intelligence. From Visual Storytelling book [via]

In a blend of data and storytelling, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison dig…

Like something from of a video game, this graphic from The New York…

Needs to add “for business analytics” in parentheses

Data science has been covered at length during the past couple of years,…

Link to code snippets towards the bottom

New blog by a classmate of mine

Presidential candidates have raised $186 million up to now, according to the Federal…

Untangling network graphs with various methods, such as a matrix diagram

Birds move. eBird shows us how.
Understanding patterns of bird occurrence at continental…

A career in statistics. Lots to be excited about.

Terminology popularized by Tufte, complete with oft-repeated quote conclusion, “There is no such thing as information overload. Only bad design.” Note: None of these words will help you visualize data better.

Diego Valle-Jones maps homicides and trafficking routes in Mexico.
To unclutter the map…

You would think that something so concrete, carefully recorded by authorities, wouldn’t be…

Nine-part series, so far, on getting started with the JavaScript library

“a trade between distortion, accuracy, and aesthetics” [via]