Nathan Yau

Randall Munroe of xkcd, with the help of a friend who is senior…

The New York Times has a set of sobering satellite photos of Japan.…

Remember when you played Telephone as a kid? No matter how simple the…

A Visual Compendium of Notable Haircuts in Popular Music from Pop Chart Lab…

There is so much data available and new data released every day, but…

Mozilla tech evangelist Paul Rouget has a go at Internet Explorer 9 in…

Greg Ross highlights an old school graphic from The Strand Magazine, published in…

You know those compressed movie barcodes that we saw last week? Here’s a…

The Web is a game of pageviews, and outlets such as Twitter and…

The Society for News Design announced the winners of their annual digital competition.…

It’s easy to forget just how big some countries are. For example, China:…

Typographic maps are all the rage these days. Instead of drawing well-defined boundary…

Hot off the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Sean Gregory argues for more…

You know Matthew Ericson’s simple weather mashup? It shows only what you need…

The World’s Billionaires — Forbes publishes their annual list of the world’s richest…

The New York Times maps the reach of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan.…

Adrian Meyer and Karl Rege of Zurich University of Applied Sciences visualize the…

Artist Ward Shelley maps the history of science fiction in painstaking detail. See…

As we know, browsers keep getting better, and it grows easier every day…

Costco is one of the best stores ever. It’s got everything you need…