Nathan Yau

Neighborhood Boundaries by Tom Taylor uses Flickr Shapefiles and Yahoo! Geoplanet “to show…

Happy Thanksgiving! According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 45 million turkeys will…

I subscribed to GOOD Magazine a while back. They describe themselves as the…

I’m not exactly sure what I’m seeing here, but Voyage, by Andy Biggs,…

Processing 1.0 was released yesterday and it “only took 162 attempts.” I strongly…

If you’re like most people, you don’t really know what’s going on with…

Palantir, by Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der, and Dan Weatherford of Facebook, visualizes friend…

Where do you think the US imports the most oil from? Most of…

Tabbloid is a free service that lets you receive your feeds in newsletter,…

I had to install a new caching implementation a few days ago to…

This is a guest post by Simit Patel of InformedTrades, which offers free…

The U.S. election is over. The post-election analyses begin. The above map shows…

In the spirit of turning pie charts into food, Mary and Matt kick…

Jeff Clark of Neoformix has been doing some cool stuff with words lately.…

Remember the awesome interface in Minority Report? You know, the one where Tom…

Martin briefly discusses a presentation at a recent visualization workshop. The speaker blurts,…

The title reads, “Barack Obama is going to appoint the nation’s first CTO.…

The thing about cartograms is that it’s hard to make out what you’re…

In Google Flu Trends, Google uses related searches to predict flu activity in…

Anyone who has a blog can attest to this. No matter how much…