Nathan Yau

A huge 8.0 earthquake shook Peru a few days ago killing at least…

The well-known college rankings are now available for your viewing pleasure. Whether the…

Two hundred and fifty people died a couple of days ago in the…

Every now and then I indulge in a Big Mac meal from McDonald’s.…

I began my path of higher education at Berkeley as an Electrical Engineering…

As you might know (or don’t know), Mitt Romney is vying for the…

While doing research on the process of rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina…

If I’ve learned anything in my first month at The Times, it’s that…

If you subscribe to Freakonomics, you probably already know that it’s moved to…

UPDATE: I found the essay! Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will…

I recently put together a timeline for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s changing views…

I made this graphic early last week, or actually, maybe it was during…

Jorge Luis Borges wrote this really good fictional short story in 1944 called…

Admittedly, ever since the Spring quarter ended, I’ve either been preparing for my…

Tired of looking at my New York Times graphics yet? Too bad. Here’s…

I had a chance to browse through some of my subscribed feeds today,…

My second graphic was in The Times Metro section today (Tuesday, July 24,…

This is just really amusing to me. Above is a bar plot, from…

It’s six days in, and I’m starting to get used to Adobe Illustrator.…

and here it is. Floyd Norris has a weekly editorial called Off the…