Nathan Yau

In a follow up to his McDonald’s map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather…

EPCOR, the water utility company that runs the fountains up in Edmonton, Canada…

In an effort to put transit data from the Toronto Transit Committee to…

Big news for all you Edward Tufte fanboys and girls. He will be…

Footprints – Every building footprint, and nothing else, in Montgomery County, Ohio. It’s…

There’s this article on CNN, from The Frisky, that has this little theory…

It was a good month for FlowingData. We passed the 30k-reader mark, and…

Simple yet effective. Any questions? [via 9gag | Thanks, Barry]…

Frederik Seiffert provides this nifty tool, LastHistory, to visualize your Last.fm listening history.…

FloatingSheep, a fun geography blog, looks at the beer belly of America. One…

From JESS3 is this video on the state of the internet. It’s essentially…

Like everyone, I’ve been watching the Olympics, and it continues to amaze me…

Snake oil? Scientific evidence for health supplements – Some work as advertised. Others…

All news is connected in some way or another. News Dots from Slate…

Every Olympics since 1936 has had a series of pictograms (i.e. icons that look like restroom signs) that represents the events.

The Economist discusses the return of big government and includes this graph showing total government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product. Is there a better way to represent the time series?

The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona has a growing database of 50,000 records…