Nathan Yau

From Autodesk Research, Citeology is an interactive that visualizes connections in academic research…

“[Y]ou have to be careful about assuming that the numbers you’ve got access to… really do reflect the underlying phenomena you’re trying to investigate.” Just because the numbers exist, doesn’t mean they’re accurate.

At around the 20-minute mark, Radiolab presents an interview with Nicholas Felton about his annual report.

Make a basic timeline that displays events over time, using a CSV file as input

“…an open source web mining toolkit that runs as a series of Cascading pipes on top of Hadoop”

A step-by-step on making a cartogram, replacing geographic boundaries with circles

Overdramatic, but some good commentary on poorly designed and rushed graphics

Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a lot. Some cuisines use a…

Thanks for making this a memorable year, everyone. Happy holidays!…

After a chat with his color deficient friends about how Vincent van Gogh’s…

AntiMap is an open source toolset that lets you record movements with your…

Carl Bialik, for The Wall Street Journal, reports on PSAs and the use…

Score.…

Stop global warming. Decrease the National Science Foundation’s R&D budget. It’s so easy.…

“…data is essentially a set of statements about the world and we are attempting to figure out – from the aggregate of statements – what the world looks like.”

Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…

Guide on picking colors and a small JavaScript library to boot

Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern…

Transportation check-ins on foursquare. This is from this past Thanksgiving, but relevant again…