Nathan Yau

In a previous life, I thought anything published in an academic journal was…

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice…

ArcGIS can do a lot for you in terms of speeding up the…

If you’ve read any books on visualization, without a doubt, you’ve seen John…

The above picture isn’t totally related, but I just had to put it…

Two more graphics — one ran on Sunday with a story investigating lifeguard…

Chris Jordan’s series, Running the Numbers: An American Portrait, just opened this weekend…

Wall Street Journal put up a nice little graphic showing the evolution of…

For what seems like forever, Democrats have been trying to get Republicans to…

As the second day of the New York taxi strike begins over GPS…

Order From Randomness has an extensive data collection featuring 360 variables describing all…

With more Many Eyes fun, Aron Pilhofer put in part 2 of his…

Karl Broman has an amusing list of the top ten worst graphs found…

Five of my graphics ran in the paper today in a special labor…

On their new exploration section, Twitter blocks is available for viewing and use.…

I’ve been back and forth on whether or not I wanted to post…

I’m not even going to pretend I know anything about how Statistics and…

There was a post on The Times U.S. Open blog debating on the…

Unbelievably, I’m already in my sixth week, with this week practically over. I…

I don’t want my credit card numbers floating around, because then I’d be…