Nathan Yau

You might think that the only use for a map is to find…

Language changes. Culture changes. And we can see some of these changes via…

I was going to post this graphic from Good when it came out,…

Government data technology has felt behind the times the past few years with…

While it was fun looking at the worldwide connections on Facebook, I thought…

William Huber, Tara Zepel, and Lev Manovich compare magazine pages of Science and…

Data visualization and all things related continued its ascent this year with projects…

As we all know, people all over the world use Facebook to stay…

xkcd geekdom for your slow Monday afternoon. Can you imagine being with someone…

Google recaps search trends for the year in Google Zeitgeist 2010, from the…

Fabian Gonzalez goes minimalistic on superheroes. I like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.…

Brett Coffman and Juan Thomassie for USA Today have a look at how…

Gareth Holt designed several charts and graphs for Rank: picturing the social order…

Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the Web, says analyzing data is the future…

You might think this is a joke, but this is serious business. From…

Certain fields of study tend to cover many of the same topics. Many…

Very Small Array has some fun with Google’s autocomplete. Utah… Jazz. Kentucky… Fried…

I don’t get soap operas. People get married, divorced, evil twins show up,…

My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. They keep the lights on and…

You’ve probably already heard and read about Wikileaks’ Cablegate. If not, Andy Baio…