Nathan Yau

David McCandless, author of The Visual MIscellaneum, delves into the usefulness of the…

Statistical graphics are often… kind of bland. But that’s fine, because they’re usually…

How has consumer spending changed over the past 25 years? Do we spend…

November was another good month. We passed the 25k-subscriber mark for the first…

There’s this branch in computer science and statistics for vision research. Normally, if…

I’m no doubt still under massive food coma at this time, but in…

Straight to the point. It’s Black Friday. Here’s the deal. Get 1 print…

Food-wise, Thanksgiving is different across the country. In some places you’re going to…

What? I don’t see anything wrong with it.…

Verizon has been running these ads lately that compare their 3G coverage to…

GE and Ben Fry (now the director of SEED visualization), show the cost…

This comic was really amusing, although it might be because I’m a big…

Thank you to the FlowingData sponsors for keeping the servers alive. Without them,…

Interaction designer Christian Swinehart takes a careful look at the popular Choose Your…

Imagine a world where data becomes the everyday, simply embedded in what you…

Photo by Night Owl City
Last week I posted some parallel coordinate plots…

David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World’s Most Consequential…

Ever since my hometown Fresno, California was ranked the dumbest city in America…

From Herald Daily is this giganto view of land mass and population size…