Nathan Yau

Political science PhD candidate David Sparks has look at the evolution of the…

In work with the American Human Development Project, Rosten Woo and Zachary Watson…

The scales for what qualifies as pretty and useful change depending on the…

We’ve seen this sort of thing before, with tweets mapped and such, but…

TenderMaps brings an informal approach to highlighting the parts of neighborhoods:
We wanted…

In this interactive, USA Today guesses your age, based on what influenced you…

This Forbes post on the greatness that is R is being passed around…

AT&T Labs’ Infoviz research group describes network graphs and their many uses:
There…

Wikipedia’s annual fundraiser is in progress. If you haven’t noticed already, when you…

When we first learn how to deal with data in school, it’s nicely…

Matthew Ericson, deputy graphics director of The New York Times, dug through the…

If you take away anything from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, make…

Not pleased with how the government is handling the budget and deficit? Fine.…

Lori Montgomery of the The Washington Post reports on the difference between the…

Geometric Death Frequency-141 by Federico Diaz is an algorithm-based sculpture at MASS MoCA,…

This is a guest post by Joan DiMicco, who heads the IBM Visual…

Last week I found out that the FDA has a feed for all…

I’m not entirely sure what we’re looking at here, other than relationships between…

Wired, in collaboration with Pitch Interactive, has a look at complaints called in…

Inspired by Shan Carter’s simple data converter, appropriately named Mr. Data Converter, Matthew…