Nathan Yau

We’re statisticians. We don’t program.
— Anonymous statistician

I was talking to a…

Jacob Harris, a New York Times senior software architect, rants about how people…

Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director at The New York Times, talks maps and…

OpenBible quantifies the ups and downs of the Bible. Red is negative and…

Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn’t…

And birth to dynamic data, vectors, and user experience

Remember the Facebook connections map from a while back? It showed digital friendships…

Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi for The New York Times on the book,…

A big thank you to the FlowingData sponsors. Without them, I would not…

As part of Kill Math, Bret Victor describes the levels of interaction

With the end of NASA’s human spaceflight program, Tommy McCall and Mike Orcutt…

Nobel Prizes have been awarded every year since 1901. Where are all the…

Didn’t know such extensive data on road fatalities was publicly available. Get records on individual incidents from the FTP

Twitter engineer Miguel Rios pays tribute to the man, the legend. Zoomed out…

In a follow-up to their mood maps, Scott Golder and Michael Macy of…

An integration of both tools for a smooth workflow

The creative process changes by person and project, but there are obstacles and…

Twitter is a bustling place of tweets, retweets, and replies, and the growth…

After a certain point in math education, like some time during high school,…