Nathan Yau

As part of a masters thesis project, a collection of information graphics from The New York Times and The Guardian

Tarot cards don’t cut it anymore as a predictors. We turn to data…

Read the original summary of the method first

Team lead, David Ferrucci, recalls the early days of putting together the team…

Quick hack that shows where your Twitter followers are from

“Will your code someday escape our solar system or land on an alien planet?” [via]

Guardian’s short eBook on how they do data

In August 2006, real estate search site Trulia had 609,000 visitors. Five years…

Maybe there’s something to this numbers thing

Axis Maps makes their app free for all. My review from when it launched

It was about five years ago when I got into visualization. Before I…

From Yanni Loukissas of the MIT Laboratory for Automation, Robotics, and Society, comes…

Distribution versus counts

A lot of things, and if anything it’s subjective

Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro play around with a face tracker and color…

Jon Kleinberg, whose work influenced Google’s PageRank, is working on ranking something else.…

Collision in a good way this year [via]

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.”