Nathan Yau

While SOPA and PIPA are no laughing matter (join the strike), the reaction…

Ranty post on why stat isn’t math

and statisticians rejoiced, although never satisfied until R is at the top

Inverse population density

“Today, in the Age of Participation, it’s crowds, not scholars, who are charting their own New World.”

If you play darts just trying to hit the bullseye, you aren’t playing…

Twitter is an organic online location, full of retweets, conversations, and link sharing.…

Accompanying an article on the variations of the wealthiest one percent, The New…

Tutorial talk by Mike Dewar, data scientist at bit.ly [via]

And when a stacked area chart might be better

Amanda Cox, the token statistician, talks R and its role in professional graphics [via]

Sebastian Delmont explains why and how StreetEasy stopped using Google Maps, switching to custom maps with open source tools

Breakdown of what worked and didn’t with news trackers for the New Hampshire primaries

Urban planner Neil Freeman maps the world’s subway systems to scale in a…

As we saw with movie barcodes, each film has a uniqueness that can…

Legos are the best toys ever invented. That’s indisputable fact. So it’s no…

Entire book from Stanford InfoLab available for free. Also available in print [via]

Math to reduce overlap and increase readability [via]

After seeing a map in The Guardian, I was curious about what other data was available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Association. It turns out there’s a lot.

The New Hampshire results trackers are out in full force tonight. Ordered by…