Nathan Yau

detailed article on the budding field

ProPublica has been tracking members of Congress who oppose and support SOPA. You…

After seeing Tristan Louis’ list that tallied the streaming availability of 2011’s top 100 box office hits, I was curious what it looked like graphically.

Lecture videos and materials for Statistics 110, offered at Harvard, on iTunes U for free

In working with tenants to help their city attorney convict a group of…

One of the best in the business look back at all of last year’s map work

In 2010, NASA released a map that shows world forest heights. Robert Simmon,…

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