My roommate pointed out a couple of weeks ago that I always get…
Nathan Yau
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Overgeneralizing on Chinese Takeout
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Data Collection With USB Pedometer. Weight No More!
I’m thinking it might be time to revive my step count data collection…
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West Coast Stata Users Group, Oct. 25
For those interested in or who already use Stata, the first Stata users…
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A Repetitive Hate for Statistics
When I tell people that I’m a graduate student in Statistics, there are…
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Deaths While Crossing the Border
With a stricter border patrol, more Mexican illegal immigrants are taking dangerous routes…
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Presidential Election Voting by the Young People of America
I actually did this graphic some time last month for the Week in…
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Published Data and Results Not Always Legit
In a previous life, I thought anything published in an academic journal was…
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Wise Words from John Tukey
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice…
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My Love-hate Relationship with ArcGIS
ArcGIS can do a lot for you in terms of speeding up the…
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John Snow’s Famous Cholera Map
If you’ve read any books on visualization, without a doubt, you’ve seen John…
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Displaying Data as Efficiently as Possible
The above picture isn’t totally related, but I just had to put it…
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Not Enough Lifeguards and Prison Libraries
Two more graphics — one ran on Sunday with a story investigating lifeguard…
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Showing Large Numbers to Scale
Chris Jordan’s series, Running the Numbers: An American Portrait, just opened this weekend…
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iPod Design and Apple Stock Over the Years
Wall Street Journal put up a nice little graphic showing the evolution of…
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More Research than Anything Else
For what seems like forever, Democrats have been trying to get Republicans to…
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Second Day of New York Taxi Strikes
As the second day of the New York taxi strike begins over GPS…
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360 Variables Describing the United States
Order From Randomness has an extensive data collection featuring 360 variables describing all…
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Decline of U.S. Men’s Tennis
With more Many Eyes fun, Aron Pilhofer put in part 2 of his…
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Not so Hot Graphs in Academic Papers
Karl Broman has an amusing list of the top ten worst graphs found…
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Presidential Campaign, Five Graphics
Five of my graphics ran in the paper today in a special labor…