Nathan Yau

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…

A good portion of my time in high school was spent trying to…

I’m transitioning to a new server right now, and let me tell you.…

In 1926, Fritz Kahn illustrated man as a working factory in his famous…

Open data is great, but it’s useless if you don’t know what to…

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ITO world, who you might remember from a year of OpenStreetMap edits, come…

This graphic from designer Stephen Taubman is entertaining in so many ways. It…

The National Science Foundation announced the 2009 winners of their annual visualization challenge.…

Add another book to the growing library of guides on how to make information graphics the right way. Dona M. Wong provides the dos and don’ts of data presentation.

After the county map tutorial a few months ago, I decided to write…

The Obama administration just posted a graph showing monthly job loss from December…

Tableau Software, popular for making data more accessible, mainly in the business sector,…

The Olympics are in full swing, so of course Twitter is abuzz with…

Tales around the Web for everyone’s favorite holiday.
Obligatory Valentine’s Day map –…

RIT student Nikki Graziano photographs math functions in the real world. Some are…