Nathan Yau

Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again…

Just because you’re using Excel doesn’t mean your charts have to look like it

Transparency International released annual data for the Corruption Perceptions Index. The Economist plotted…

It’s always nice to hear from the people who are the best at…

As a resident at Eyebeam, Alexander Chen visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s…

A peak into some smart people’s minds, most recently Amanda Cox and Nicholas Felton

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