Nathan Yau

John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University, explains, in the New…

This might shock you, but many movies are not filmed on location. Yeah.…

Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky provide a good overview of some…

I love it when data, or in this case, tweets, finds itself in…

My many thanks to the FlowingData sponsors who help keep the gears turning…

I’m not proud of this, but I know very little about what’s going…

Everyone’s been bashing Flash lately and holding HTML5 up on a pedestal. This…

In 1934, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, a house built partly…

I’m pretty sure all this Facebook stuff will blow over soon enough. Most…

People are up in arms about Facebook’s new privacy policies, partly because some…

No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers… only. I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here’s my guess about what happened.

I bet you didn’t know this. Marge Simpson was actually modeled after the coastlines of Europe. True story.

How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.

Andrew interviews Fernanda and Martin about their new venture Flowing Media, visualization, and their amazing taste in adjectives.

PCWorld provides a handy field guide to help you spot fanboys in the wild.

Sebastian Wernicke, an engagement manager at Oliver Wyman and former bioinformatics researcher, explains the results from his pseudo-analysis of TED talks. The result: a guide on how to give the ultimate TED talk.

This is a story of fake charities and tax shelters. In an analysis of data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), it was found that billions of dollars in donations were collected by fraudulent organizations, with only a tiny portion going to the actual causes. In one case, only $1 out of every $100 went to helping the homeless. The rest of the money went to a tax shelter. Shameful.

Hannah Fairfield of the New York Times looks at driving habits and gas…

Most people don’t know what actually goes into a good infographic. There’s a…

Cristobal Vila, inspired by, well, numbers and nature, Vila animates the natural existence of Fibonacci sequences, the golden ratio, and Delaunay triangulation. Watch it. Even if you don’t know what those three things are, the video will rock your socks off.