Nathan Yau

Two weeks ago, I vowed to stop procrastinating using two strategies:

Make a…

Jose Luis Vicente and Irma Vilà, in collaboration with Bestiario, have created…

Hi, Boing Boing readers. Welcome to FlowingData. For the new visitors, here’s the…

I just created a new Twitter account, and it got me to thinking…

Wired Magazine recently did a feature on data-driven art.
The above image is…

There was a time I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but since I saw these data visualization pieces, I haven’t looked back.

I thought this map was amusing. As you can see, Mr. Bridges prefers…

New York Talk Exchange – Illustrates the global exchange of information in real…

I started a FlowingData Facebook group a couple of weeks ago, and I…

For our Humanflows project, we used the United Nations Common Database for our…

Writers and engineers came together to discuss technology’s role in journalism at the recent symposium at Georgia Tech.

Data is absolutely vital to Google’s success; without data, Google is pretty much…

Santiago, who I met at the Visualizar workshop, forwarded me his work on…

I waste way too much time doing completely useless stuff when I should be working. I’m ready to stop procrastinating.

I stumbled across a data table from the Social Security Administration that shows…

Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar collaborated again in their featured piece at New…

Some thoughts on what I think would make this graphic on the U.S. senate’s history of bipartisan politics a bit more useful.

How can we use gaming to improve current data visualization techniques?

Everyone knows that The New York Times produces great graphics. I bet you’re…