Nathan Yau

Movies are a curious business. There a variety of forces that encourage people…

Lightweight library for time series charts

Inversion for clarity; interesting use of gradient

In collaboration with Lift and Near Future Laboratory, Interactive Things explores digital traces…

The difference:
In this animated short, the relationship between trend and variation are…

Newsrooms are changing and some embrace the growth of data-driven stories. Others not so much [via]

Continuing to spread their seeds of knowledge. Strive for clear and simple, learn to code, and sketch a lot. [via]

A shift in focus for the once data consumer focused site. This not long after Infochimps launches their big data platform geared towards developers. It’ll be interesting to see what these two are like in three years.

A classic case of “I’m not in your territory. Just look at Google Maps.”

“But in the long run, it becomes pleasurable and even addictive.”

On February 29, 2000, R 1.0.0 was released

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte, author of the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, mapped 72 hours of…

Sold out conference, but you can catch some of the talks here

Maps have been around for a long time, but you might not know…

Lightning talk on grabbing data from pages with JavaScript [via]

Calling out The New York Times for an incorrect reference to the Law of Large Numbers. Also this

“Target doesn’t just know when you’re buying sheets. They know what you’re doing…

A quick take on what visualization is to me

Making public the tools they developed internally to handle data themselves