Nathan Yau

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…

Six-week post-doc training fellowship to form bridges across academia and practice

The Guardian Datablog posted a choropleth map; readers helped them fix it

Loss for the Bureau, a gain for the university

Three or four articles on the gender wage gap popped up on my radar last week, some focusing on the rise of women as the lead household earner and others on how much less women make. I took a look.

How they play a role in human-computer interaction and evaluating them

The steps behind making NYT map in R, showing where Rick Santorum stood before he suspended his campaign

Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history…

From Twitter engineer Jimmy Lin; free download on github

Roundup of interactives to explore tweets, retweets, and connections

Discussion from a variety of fields, including my adviser

“Work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification.” Applies especially well to data designers [via]

Kaiser Fung talks about the suck of overlaying plots to show a relationship.…

In a study by TheLadders (of n equals 30), recruiters looked at resumes…

The Washington Post asked three “young entrepreneurs” how their company uses infographics. They…

Seems promising, if you have access to Science

“I have a goal in life: To rid the world of bad PowerPoint slides.”

An almost two-hour long, analytics-focused talk

In usual xkcd fashion, Randall Munroe plots the depths of lakes and oceans,…

By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…