FlowingData: More Than Just a Pretty Picture

Nathan Yau is a happily married UCLA PhD candidate in statistics who is completing his dissertation in Buffalo, New York, because…he’s happily married and followed his wife east to her new job. Nathan is also the founder of FlowingData, which he started in 2007, around the time when he took up shoveling snow as a favorite winter pastime. The site’s tag-line is “Strength in Numbers,” and Yau’s interest in showcasing the best and worst of data visualization along with some of his own informative graphs and “how to”  (or, more accurately, how not to) posts makes for a very engaging site.  One particularly topical post worth exploring: 27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis. And don’t miss the range of data displays in the projects section of the site. Once again, a big Soomo shout-out to Miguel Centellas for sharing this site with us!