Nathan Yau

xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.…

A few months ago there was a lot of hoopla around the iPhone…

Organizes overlapping points in a scatterplot so they don’t

All kinds of crazy with News of the World went down this past…

If you have Netflix, you know that there’s a section for local favorites,…

We saw Europe in the eyes of different countries a while back. Christoph…

A while back we saw the history of the world according to Wikipedia.…

If you’re like me, you’ve probably used Wikipedia at least once in the…

We often think of communities in the framework of government-set boundaries, but relationships…

For all the maps by Eric Fischer I’ve posted, it’s amazing how little…

Right now, at this very moment, I have an actual physical book on…

We already learned how to win Roshambo every time, but there’s actually more…

After attending the Eyeo Festival, Zach Gemignani of Juice Analytics noticed a difference…

I came across some UFO sightings data on Infochimps, from the National UFO…

We’re already more than halfway through the year. Time…moving…too…fast. Is there a pause…

Slow loops? Maybe these alternative will help

Whenever I post a Sankey diagram (for example, here, here, and here), someone…

If you’re a parent, most likely you want your children to go to…

Does more crime happen during the late hours of the night or in…