Nathan Yau

For The Pudding, Michelle McGhee analyzed representation in crossword puzzles. Some crossword publications…

Here’s the good stuff for November.

The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government defined an index to track…

For The New York Times, Ford Fessenden, Lazaro Gamio and Rich Harris go…

Alan McConchie from Stamen recaps the wide array of maps and charts that…

Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard:
Some app developers Motherboard spoke to were not…

The World Bank tracks global development through a number of indicators. (You can…

Voter turnout this election was higher than it’s been in a long time,…

There’s a video (one of too many I am sure) going around that…

Coronavirus cases are rising (again), which includes prisoners and prison staff. The Marshall…

To combat cheating during online exams, many schools have utilized services that try…

When every day feels like more of the same, here are some of the things I do to shake off the monotony.

For The New York Times, Denise Lu and Karen Yourish looked at the…

D3.js, a flexible JavaScript library useful for visualization, can feel intimidating at first.…

tixy.land is a minimalist coding environment by Martin Kleppe:
Control the size and…

For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Ted Mellnik show the shifts in…

The microCOVID Project provides a calculator that lets you put in where you…

The Washington Post goes with a wind metaphor to show the change in…

Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us. Even when we know what is…

As I’m sure you know, it was Election Day on Tuesday here in the United States. I told myself that I wouldn’t watch the results roll in, because the record number of mail-in ballots would throw off regular timelines. Of course I broke.