Nathan Yau

Popular Mechanics did a study on where it was safest to sit on…

In elementary school through high school, I always used Microsoft Excel for my…

My wife and I are celebrating our one-year anniversary this week with an…

The Boston Globe lets readers explore home run data for the Boston Red…

This guest post is by Rahul Bhargava, a Senior Software Engineer at nTAG…

Todd provides 5 reasons why data visualization isn’t more prevalent:

People don’t know…

At the bottom of each article on National Nine News (Australian MSN), there’s…

Today, Kevin Merritt, founder and CEO of blist, provides some background on putting…

Dilbert is one of the best comics ever.

Matthew Block and Jonathan Corum from The New York Times use a network…

A quick announcement: I’m headed back to California for a few days and…

To tell a complete and meaningful story, you need to have and provide all the context.

Thank you to everyone who responded to last week’s poll: What Field of…

NewsWare was launched yesterday on msnbc.com. It’s a set of apps, games, and…

In a deviation from the usual pie chart and standard tree map, this…

Visualization Criticism – A criticism on the criticism on visualization. Robert Kosara, Fritz…

People from lots of different fields have emailed me during the course of…

Of the 23,160 Facebook applications, I use about 5, but I probably wouldn’t…

Inspired by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar’s We Feel Fine, and using data…

I studied electrical engineering and computer science in undergrad and now as a…