Nathan Yau

Seth Stevenson, for Slate Magazine, covers cartographer David Imus’ hand-crafted wall map, which…

“The bottom line: in their tests, rebutting misinformation with graphics was shown to be more effective than conveying the same information in written form.”

NYT graphics’ election coverage about to kick into full gear

Candidates’ poll standings using animated horsies. Effective, if a little campy for the masses

With the new year, many of you (myself included) and your employers resolved…

Since D3’s JavaScript, it’s straightforward to hook in a dynamic data source.

While we’re on the topic of academic papers and how they’re linked, Johan…

Searchable records go up in April, although I wouldn’t get my hopes up too high since it’s the government. [via]

From Autodesk Research, Citeology is an interactive that visualizes connections in academic research…

“[Y]ou have to be careful about assuming that the numbers you’ve got access to… really do reflect the underlying phenomena you’re trying to investigate.” Just because the numbers exist, doesn’t mean they’re accurate.

At around the 20-minute mark, Radiolab presents an interview with Nicholas Felton about his annual report.

Make a basic timeline that displays events over time, using a CSV file as input

“…an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop”

A step-by-step on making a cartogram, replacing geographic boundaries with circles

Overdramatic, but some good commentary on poorly designed and rushed graphics

Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a lot. Some cuisines use a…

Thanks for making this a memorable year, everyone. Happy holidays!…

After a chat with his color deficient friends about how Vincent van Gogh’s…

AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your…