Nathan Yau

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

New York Times editor Aron Pilhofer on using data as the source of reports. “It’s not rocket science.” [via]

When Nicholas Felton headed over to Facebook last year, I thought we’d seen…

Quick steps on the graphic design part of visualization from Lev Manovich

Sometimes power dunks don’t get much credit, because it’s hard to see on…

Three-part tutorial on making non-ugly choropleth maps in R. This is part one. Then there’s part 2 and 3. The blog is a mix of English and Spanish(?), but it might be one worth following. [via]

Hawt. [Tokyotek via @datapointed]…

Desktop tool that changes colors of entire screen to simulate color blindness

Many people aren’t happy with their face or body, and a proportion of…

Is all this tracking and predicting getting out of hand?

Maybe taking the Lin lessons a little too far, but oh what the hey, I’m game.

The number of tools to record bits of your life in numbers grows, and it’s starting to look less weird.

You’d think that this would’ve been done by now, but this simple mashup…

Slides from Shan Carter’s lightning talk on the process behind the Obama spending bubbles [via]

“Make statistics as relevant to your audience as possible and put the numbers into a context that people can instantly grasp.” [via]