Nathan Yau

The choices you make when picking out medication at the pharmacy. Looks complicated, but of course many of the decisions happen in an instant.

Deaths during major wars. Contrast with this. [via]

Lulu Pinney goes over the subtle art of working with significant digits:
When…

A fun map by Jamie Popkin of Little Earth that animates the use…

Note from Nathan: Last week, visualization researchers from all over gathered in Providence,…

In a follow-up to last year’s visions of the future, Microsoft imagines interacting…

NPR explains how we reached a population of 7 billion. Simply put, the…

Another month, another crazy circular discussion on the chances of answering a question…

According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over…

So many movies, so many creepy crawlies that go bump in the night.…

The question is great. The resulting comment thread is epic. What’s your answer?

The word you’re looking for is epic. From Tenso graphics, maker of amusing…

Posts and links get shared over and over again, but we usually don’t…

Eric Fischer maps language communities on Twitter using Chrome’s open-source language detector. Each…

Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams asked visual designers why they write their own…

Apple has a page dedicated to Steve Jobs that displays messages from friends,…

It’s been about three months since Visualize This came out, and in case…

Using satellite data that goes back to 2002, NASA maps tens of millions…

Where there is Internet and where there is none

Jim Vallandingham maps racial divide in major cities using Mike Bostock’s implementation of…