Nathan Yau

Data tales, revolution, and journalism

News / journalism, media, quicklink, self-surveillance

On the Media’s episode last week was on data, namely personal data collection,…
Growing need for data heads

News / analytics, business, jobs

The New York Times, citing a number of bits from a recent McKinsey…
Geography of hate

Maps / analysis, hate, states

Richard Florida for The Atlantic takes a closer look at hate groups in…
Super detailed map of the skies

Maps / constellations, skies

The title just about says it all:
The Photopic Sky Survey is a…
MacGyver recipe book – All 7 seasons of diversions and mischief

Infographics / gadgets, humor, MacGyver, recipes

Oh. My. God. Fathom Information Design compiles every recipe from the show MacGyver:…
Open thread: Can you spot the wrongness in this tax graph?

Mistaken Data / classes, taxes

The argument behind this graph in The Wall Street Journal is that the…
U.S. home prices as opera

Visualization / audiolization, opera, prices

Planet Money, a radio show on NPR covering the global economy, loves data,…
Anatomy of a mashup

Visualization / mashup, music

Mashups, the art of mixing multiple songs into one continuous song, is a…
Plush statistical distribution pillows

Statistics / distributions, Etsy, humor, pillows

For the statistical nerd in you or for the child you are raising…
Ben Fry on visualization future and data literacy

News / Ben Fry, interview, O'Reilly, Where 2.0

Ben Fry, co-creator of Processing and head of Fathom Design, talks data visualization…
Art reproduction incongruencies

Data Art / art, mosaic, reproductions, Viegas, Wattenberg

When you think art reproduction, you probably think of something that looks almost…
A century of deaths and a lot of fake blood

Data Art / blood, deaths

Rather than bars, bubbles, and dots, Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril, and Marion Kotlarski…
How to map connections with great circles

Tutorials / airlines, arcs, R

There are various ways to visualize connections, but one of the most intuitive and straightforward ways is to actually connect entities or objects with lines. And when it comes to geographic connections, great circles are a nice way to do this.
Ben Cerveny talks Planetary and where they go next

News / Ben Cerveny, Bloom, Planetary

Planetary, the iPad app for music exploration by Bloom, has hit the ground…
Flash vs. HTML5

Infographics / flash, HTML5, Periscopic

Design firm Periscopic takes a look at the Flash versus HTML5 debate and…
Global search volume by language

Maps / globe, Google, interactive, search

To show off their new toy that is WebGL, a 3D graphics API…
Stats of the Union tells health stories in America

Maps / Fathom, health, iPad

Stats of the Union, the new Fathom-produced iPad app, maps the status of…
Where the water resources are and where they go

Data Art / animation, consumption, environment, resources, water

Designer David Wicks compares rainfall against water consumption in his thesis project Drawing…
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My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors who help keep this growing blog…
One man’s travel patterns – Atlas of the Habitual

Maps, Self-surveillance / GPS, tracking, travels

FInding himself in a new town, with a new job, Tim Clark started…

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