Nathan Yau

About a year after the launch of the Federal IT Dashboard, business intelligence…

Thanks again, everyone for sharing FlowingData. It was another good month, and it…

This graphic on Burning Man is totally lost on me, but maybe you…

My thanks to the FlowingData sponsors. They keep the lights on and keep…

Personal data fascinates me. I collect data about myself mostly as a way…

I admit it. When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors,…

35mm, a short film by Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, and Pascal…

Charles Blow on this unnecessarily complex chart used to show the network of…

This is a guest post by Alastair Dant, interactive lead at the Guardian.…

Shawn Allen of Stamen Design provides a brief history of data visualization, starting…

This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…

Now that the oil flow has finally stopped, for now, the attention has…

It’s no secret. The US military gets a lot of funding for manpower,…

This will be lost on many of you, but to the programmers this…

From Ben Fry’s newly established Fathom Information Design, is a visualization for GE…

Sure, why not, let’s make it a hairy Friday. From Tor Weeks: a…

The Beatles were famously known for their mop-top haircuts in the early 1960s,…

Yeah, you read that right. Tardiness makes the world go ’round:
One day…

NASA has mapped the world’s forest heights, based on satellite data, for a…