Projects

Graphics by Nathan Yau, borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.

Most of the major pizza chains are within a 5-mile radius of where…

Moving on from the most trendy names in US history, let’s look at…

We’ve seen that we can learn from what people search for, through the…

Last time I looked at where major grocery stores are across the United…

I have yet to see a full episode of Doctor Who, “the longest-running…

Names are incredibly personal things. It’s how we identity ourselves. We associate others,…

Here's where to go next once you've covered the basics of visualization. When it's time to actually start making things.

It was surprisingly hard for me to find a physical copy of this…

The Economist covered a handful of visualization books in this week’s issue, and…

I’ve been poking around grocery store locations, courtesy of AggData, the past few…

A few years ago I downloaded speed dating data from experiments conducted by…

It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since Data Points: Visualization…

Data is an abstraction of something that happened in the real world. How…

Whoa, that was fast. Data Points is now available. Thanks to all of…

This appeared at my door today. It’s awesome. I suspect those who pre-ordered…