Nathan Yau

I’m starting to hear about Charles Minard‘s map of Napoleon’s march time and…

I bookmark stuff with del.icio.us almost every day, and it’s become indispensable, because…

Radiohead’s most recent music video, House of Cards, was made entirely without cameras.…

The G-Econ (Geographically-based Economic data) group has worked on making economic data publicly…

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As I write this, I’m waiting for my connecting flight…

With all the new technologies we’ve come to rely on, it’s easy to…

The animated map starts slow with the first location in Arkansas in 1962 and then spreads like a wildfire. When did your nearest Walmart open?

A little over a week ago, I was in Bremen for the Data…

For those who want more out of the commonly-used mapping APIs from Google,…

The New York Times shows how presidential candidates have spent more than $900…

The Girl Effect – “the idea that adolescent girls are uniquely capable of…

It’s July 4th weekend which means lots of burgers and hot dogs across…

Earlier this month, I announced FlowingData’s summer project for personal data visualization. It’s…

In the time that it takes you to watch this movie, the US…

The colmeia group recently installed their Caffeine Viewer project where they hacked their…

Whaaa? Cool beans.…

As you might have noticed, I haven’t been live blogging the Data Viz…

With it being FlowingData’s birthday, it seems like a good time to get…

It’s been one year since my rambling post on creating effective visualization. It…

For the next few days, I’m in Bremen, Germany for a conference on…