Nathan Yau

When you walk the beer aisle at the grocery store, there are lots…

It’s been about a month since Visualize This came out, but it took…

The Rural West Initiative and the Bill Lane Center for the American West…

“Bacon is a legitimate ingredient to many dishes, and can be quite tasty, when used right. But if your cooking style is to start with cooking something bland, and then add bacon to make it less bland, then, trust me, you are not a great cook.”

In many ways, data wants to be social. It wants to get out…

Peter Curran for BBC Radio 4 puts the tribe of statisticians under the…

Following the success of the Strata conference earlier this year here on the…

Mike Bostock visualizes mobile patent lawsuits, improving on a graphic from Thomson Reuters…

Tor classifies areas in San Francisco by bicycle. I’d say that’s about right.…

Statistics isn’t just for finding out how our world works and how companies…

Google Map Maker is a simple tool that lets you draw your own…

The bedroom is a private place, and what goes on in the bedroom…

The two differ in who uses them, how they are used, and who…

I’m visiting the US Census Bureau this week, so there’s a good chance…

The food nutrition label is on almost every food item, but it can…

In an interview with Enrico Bertini, Moritz Stefaner, whose work you’ll probably recognize,…

Maryalene LaPonsie describes some novel job called Data Scientist (although we’ve known about…

When you’re picking a hotel to stay at in an area you don’t…

Joan R. Ginther has won the lottery four times, each time with million…

Hundreds of thousands of people immigrate every year, with some countries seeing higher…