Nathan Yau

Here are the most popular posts of October, according to combination of views…

There was a problem on Expedia where a lot of people were choosing…

People approach data in different ways, especially across different fields. When you’re presented…

For his book The Visual Miscellaneum, David McCandless, along with Lee Byron, had…

Katy Börner, professor of information science, catalogs visualization and science in Atlas of…

My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. They help me keep the servers…

All eyes here in the states will be on election results tonight, and…

John Palmer has a look at the past 100 years of government and…

Every year the Pew Research Center asks Americans what their top political priority…

Jon Bruner for Forbes reports on billionaire contributions to politicians over the past…

In what seems to have become an expectation during all major events, a…

Stat people will probably find this amusing. For the rest, this might make…

How well do you know your logos and brands? Or more importantly, how…

Daniel Shiffman, assistant professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, talks programming, computation,…

The personal finance site Mint aggregates spending data from four million users. At…

Essentially, do something more with the data than plopping it front of people. There’s a small niche (for now) as data provider. Demand is much higher for storyteller.

Vivek Wadhwa talks government data and the (financial) opportunities ripe for the picking:…

Sports statistics. Always so many tables. Juice Analytics takes a more visual approach…

I took a look at unemployment rates about a year ago, and I…