Nathan Yau

Through the Internet, sharing data has — you know what, I’m not even…

Barcodes. We all know what they look like. They’re the black stripes that…

See what people are tweeting around the world 24/7. What are you doing right now?

Last week I asked if you could improve a mediocre bar chart showing…

Lee Byron, recent Carnegie Mellon grad and newly inducted New York Times graphics…

In the FlowingData forums, Ryan asks a really good question about data design:…

Notice anything new at the top of this page? FlowingData readers, say hello…

I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox for years and have nothing but good things…

Martin Wattenberg, one of the creators of Many Eyes, in reply to “Why…

A few days ago, FlowingData’s subscriber count shot up to 3,100+ subscribers, moving…

BedPost – I put this up earlier for the FlowingData personal visualization project,…

I’m on my way back home from the workshop Integrating Computing into the…

I am starting to hear about Charles Minard’s map of Napoleon’s march time…

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…