Nathan Yau

Graduate student researchers are pretty much putting sensors in everything these days. There’s…

The thing about cancer cells is that they suck. Their DNA is all…

Yes, watered down and flavorless beer has high drinkability. You know, sort of…

[via xkcd | Thanks, Justin]…

FlowingData posts will slow down this holiday week. I’m going to be busy…

Philip from infochimps posts the results of some heavy Twitter scraping. Data for…

It’s hard to believe that another year has come and gone, but as…

During major events, people use their mobile phones to share their emotions: the…

I made a few updates to the FlowingData forums last night – the…

Have a good weekend all. I’ll be getting buried in the expected 12…

Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists…

The great thing about being a graduate student is that you get to…

In his latest data sculptures, Andreas Nicolas Fischer places data visualization in a…

SiSense is running a dashboard competition, and a free iPod Touch is up…

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It happened again. I told someone I study statistics.…

I thought this was a joke when I first read it, but scientists…

One of the more painful parts of analysis or visualization is that you…

I ran a contest last week to improve a graph from Swivel that…

I got an email from Harald asking, “How does the job market for…