Nathan Yau

Nutrition facts labels are uniform across products, but let’s imagine for a second that you could do whatever you want, just as long they showed certain bits of information. FFunction takes a stab at redesigning the standard milk carton under this premise.

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about Facebook’s newly installed privacy policies. It…

Lee Byron open-sourced his streamgraph code in Processing about a month ago. Jason Sundram has taken that and ported it to JavaScript, using Processing.js.

Yeah, it’s Friday.

For those following the status of the oil spill, the New York Times…

In case you missed them or are new to FD, here are the top posts from the last month, based on a combination of views and comments. The Walmart map came back to life recently with new data and a feature on CNNMoney.

There are a lot of job opportunities out there for visualization people. This…

Along the same lines of Dolores Labs’ color experiment, Randall Munroe of xkcd…

SolarBeat is an audiolization by Whitevinyl that makes music with the planets. Each…

Gary Wolf, of Wired and The Quantified Self, describes personal data collection and…

Just a quick note. Sunlight Labs’ Design for America contest is coming up…

Death and Taxes: 2011 poster – Jess’ annual look at government spending has…

Stupid Fight compares fans on Twitter using “stupid indicators” like “OMG” and number…

Some colors represent different things in different parts of the world, while others…

In much of the same spirit of the recent Cartographies of Time, the…

Because you can never get enough Twitter visualizations, Jason Stirman takes a look…

Here we have a case of worthwhile data and an interesting story about…

There is no way to think up an original and extraordinary design—it can…