Nathan Yau

Counting the Christmas days with snow

Maps / Christmas, snow, Washington Post, weather

This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch…
Map of walkable neighborhoods

Maps / city, local, walking

Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for the month: things to use, things to poke at, and things to learn from.
Probability does not exist

Statistics / David Spiegelhalter, probability, uncertainty

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages…
Elon Musk’s posting (and sleep) schedule

Statistical Visualization / Economist, Elon Musk, Twitter

Not to dwell on Musk, but I was reminded of this dot plot…
Online reach of Elon Musk on X

Statistical Visualization / Elon Musk, social media, Washington Post, X

As you can imagine, Elon Musk, the owner of X, has a prominent…
Network of Supermarket Chains

Data Underload / chains, grocery

Here’s the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount.
Multiplication mistake leads to exaggerated plastic cautions

Mistaken Data / baseline, plastic, research

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black…
Military location data that anyone can buy legally

Data Sharing / location, military, privacy, Wired

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and…
More milk, fewer cows

Statistical Visualization / cows, milk, Works in Progress

For Works in Progress, Jared Hutchins explains how milk production increased per cow,…
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Exploring Empty Spaces

The Process / missing data

Usually we focus on actual data points for insights, but we can also highlight the spaces between for a flipped point of view.
How mpox virus spreads

Statistical Visualization / mpox, Reuters, virus

For Reuters, Arathy J Aluckal, Jitesh Chowdhury, and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa illustrate how…
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” spreads to earlier months

Statistical Visualization / Christmas, Mariah Carey, NBC News, song

For NBC News, Joe Murphy shows the play rate on Last.fm for Mariah…
Where Health Insurance Comes From in the United States

Data Underload / healthcare, insurance

About half of people have private health insurance through an employer. However, the other half get their insurance from elsewhere or through a combination of sources.
Words that do not appear in literature

Statistical Visualization / literature, Martin Wattenberg

Word clouds show key terms or phrases that appear in a body of…
Sitting vs. standing jobs

Infographics / Alvin Chang, Pudding, sitting, standing, work

Some jobs require a lot of standing, crouching, and climbing, whereas other jobs…
Chinese names lost in translation

Network Visualization / Chinese, language, Liuhuaying Yang, names

Liuhuaying Yang aims to clarify the names and sounds that get lost when…
Tsunami alert, because earthquake off coast of Northern California

Maps / alert, earthquake, USGS

The folks up here received one of those loud emergency alerts a few…
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Claude Review: Experimenting with an AI Assistant in the Visualization Workflow

The Process / AI, Claude, generative

I check out Claude, a generative AI assistant to see if, how, and when such a tool could fit into an analysis and visualization workflow.
When internet cables break under the sea

Infographics / Internet, New York Times, repair

The network that connects the world still relies on surprisingly thin wires that…

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