Nathan Yau

Visualization contests around the corner

Contests / competition, victory

The best way to learn how to visualize data is to grab a…
Exploring NYT news and its authors

Network Visualization / authors, IBM, interactive, NYT, topics

The IBM Visual Communication Lab published their first of what I hope many…
Better Life Index measures well-being across countries

Visualization / interactive, life, OECD, quality, world

OECD, with the help of Moritz Stefaner and Raureif, promote a well-being index…
A deadly year of tornadoes

Maps / interactive, NYT, tornado

As reported by The New York Times, the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, known…
Seven year itch: When do people get married and divorced?

Projects / census, marriage

The United States Census Bureau just released results from the Survey of Income…
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…

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