Nathan Yau

Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins tells the story of a lonely desk…

Tips on making sure no one cares about your graphics

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on significant digits and statisticians’ natural disbelief in numbers.…

Hilary Mason, chief scientist at bitly, examined links to 600 science pages and…

This past week I was shackled by a, um, condition where it was…

As the Eurozone crisis develops, the BBC News has a look at what…

Randall Munroe of xkcd charts the things that money pays for, from the…

Ken Murphy installed a camera on top of the Exploratorium in San Francisco…

To get a gauge of public opinion and the Occupy movement, The New…

My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors who help me keep the lights…

Overhauling his migration map from last year, Jon Bruner uses five year’s worth…

R, the favorite computing language of a growing number of statisticians, is friendly…

People upload thousands of pictures to Flickr every day, but the numbers and…

Beautiful time-lapse video using photographs from crew onboard the International Space Station. I…

For the map nerds. xkcd says what your favorite map projection says about…

If you don’t watch the candidate debates — and let’s face it, that’s…

The November issue of Popular Science is a special on data. There are…

Concept video for collective data fiction. Interesting if a little fluffy.

A couple of infographic résumé sites, vizualize.me and re.vu, sprouted up that use…

Designer Stefanie Posavec talks about her process of data collection, analysis, and design.…