Nathan Yau

Spam sucks. We all hate it, but no matter how good the filter,…

We use visualization for a lot of different things, and its purpose varies…

I didn’t fill out my bracket this year, so it’s not nearly as…

Add another site to the list of places to find the data you…

The strange science of Francis Galton – Inspired by his cousin Charles Darwin’s…

I’m 96% sure this isn’t true. I have no evidence to backup nor deny these claims.

A big thank you to FlowingData sponsors. They keep the virtual lights on…

You should have received your Census survey by now. Did you fill it…

“We’re inventors – we’re creators. And that’s the most important thing about what we do.”

With his usual cleverness, Christoph Niemann illustrates the everyday as Google maps. My…

Yesterday was the Interactive Infographics panel at South by Southwest, and if Twitter…

Designer Christopher Harrell talks about, with a dose of various embedded graphics, pointing…

In 1870, Francis Walker oversaw publication of the United States’ very first Statistical Atlas, based on data from the ninth Census.

If people put data on the Web – government data, scientific data, community…

How to split up the US – Geographic clusters based on social network…

The government recommends a diet for healthy living, but there are billions of dollars of lopsided subsidies. Interesting point. Funky presentation.

We Feel Fine, by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris, is a selection of some of the best entries from the database of 12 million emotions, along with some insights into the growing dataset.