Nathan Yau

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…

From Pasta by Design by George L. Legendre, it’s exactly what you think…

Simple dataset, but two graphs tell different stories of rainfall

How we see patterns. Second in the series from Jorge Camoes, geared towards Excel users, but applicable across different software

This graphic by commenting platform DISQUS, arguing that higher quality online discussions come…

Google Maps is one of Google’s best applications, but the time, energy, and…