Nathan Yau

Quick announcement: I have a handful of signed Visualize This copies available in…

During the riots in London this past summer, a lot of information spread…

As part of their series on road accidents, BBC News mapped every recorded…

Famed statistician John Tukey created the boxplot in 1970. It shows a distribution…

Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity:
Dencity…

Project Stimmungsgasometer (say what?) is a giant smiley face that changes based on…

Shan Carter, who makes interactive graphics for The New York Times, talks telling…

Don’t worry. This isn’t the end of the world.

Lot of press lately for this job title

Testing the idea of six degrees of separation, first proposed by Frigyes Karinthy,…

Cathy O’Neil on when there’s enough data to justify a data scientist in…

For The Guardian, ITO World maps about 370,000 road-related deaths from 2001 through…

Moritz Stefaner automates label placement in D3 so that the text is more readable

Binning geographical regions with hexagons. Interesting honeycomb effect

Easy-to-follow introduction to Mike Bostock’s D3 JavaScript library

Spoiler: yes.

There’s so much emphasis and attention on Black Friday, the day of sales…

Address is Approximate by Tom Jenkins tells the story of a lonely desk…

Tips on making sure no one cares about your graphics

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal on significant digits and statisticians’ natural disbelief in numbers.…