Nathan Yau

Maps aren’t just a way to see directions from point A to point…

Kevin Slavin, chairman and co-founder of Area/Code, describes how algorithms (processing tons and…

Simon Rogers, for The Guardian, outlines the new, hot trend on the block…

Sarah Kessler and Nick Sigler examine the interconnectedness between major tech companies. I…

Mark Johnstone uses a cake metaphor to represent data, presentation, and what you…

World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is…

The US continues to rack up more and more debt, with a deficit…

There are lots of people on Twitter who talk visualization. Moritz Stefaner had…

There are many brands on Twitter that exist to uphold an image of…

In May 2011, the United States owned $14.3 trillion in debt. A lot…

The phrase “you are what you eat” usually refers to health and weight,…

Poop. Doo doo. Crap. Shit. Oddly enough these are the first words of…

Remember when Joshua Koffman was posting pictures of the guy who had this…

BBC Radio 5Live has a new podcast up: Looking at ourselves. The first…

Last week I announced the release of Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to…

It’s easy to share static graphics. Save an image and then upload it…

It’s a given that some colleges and programs give more A’s than others,…

xkcd pokes fun at correlation and causation again. Funny every time.…

A few months ago there was a lot of hoopla around the iPhone…

Organizes overlapping points in a scatterplot so they don’t