Nathan Yau

BreathingEarth is an animated map that represents death rate data from September 2005…

I just created a FlowingData Facebook group where (I hope) readers can discuss…

Jeffrey Heer and George G. Robertson investigate the benefits of using animation in statistical graphics.

Are online statistical tools sufficient to analyze our complex datasets?

Peace is what comes to mind when I think of my grandma.

Believe it or not, the box-and-whisker is not just a box and some whiskers.

Manhattan Timeformations looks like a series of interactive schematics from a video game,…

This spam visualization, by Irad Lee, was one of favorite projects at Visualizar.

Advances in News Gathering, Improving Journalism Workflow, Social Computing and Journalism, Ubiquitous Journalism.

In this age of abundant data, it is technically challenging to infuse graphics with as much of it as possible.

This guest post is by Hadley Wickham, a Statistics PhD candidate and a…

For fun, I tried graphing Clemens’ past ERAs against the ERAs for the 16 most recent hall of fame pitchers.

For your long, relaxing weekend, enjoy some visualization treats.

This guest post is by Mike Love, and he answers my question —…

Matthew Hurst, from Microsoft Live Labs and the co-creator of BlogPulse, answers my…

What do others look for in the opposite sex? How do you measure up? Find the answers in this speed dating dataset.

This guest post is by Andrew Gelman from Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and…

There are two roles at Predictify — those who answer and those who ask — and you can do both.

Change the word ‘force’ to ‘data’ in your favorite Star Wars quotes, and you’ll suddenly understand what I mean by flowing data.

A select group of experts from several different fields were nice enough to share with me what data means to them.