Nathan Yau

Length of pontificates

Statistical Visualization / Axios, pope

Pope Francis’ papacy started in 2013 and lasted 12 years and 39 days.…
Pope age comparisons

Statistical Visualization / pope, Washington Post

With the passing of Pope Francis, the Washington Post charted the ages of…
Complete 2024 election data, for congressional districts

Data Sources / districts, Downballot, election

Election data should be publicly available and easy to access at high granularity,…
Maps of where federal employees work

Maps / employment, government, New York Times

When you think about people who work for the U.S. federal government, you…
Users’ engagement declined on X after they argued with Musk

Statistical Visualization / Elon Musk, free speach, New York Times, Twitter

This will shock many. There are influencers on X who had high engagement…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – April 2025 Roundup

The Process / roundup

The good stuff from April: Here are tools you can use, data to play with, and resources to learn from.
Bird songs of spring

Infographics / bird song, sonification, Washington Post

The other morning, my eyes opened about an hour earlier than usual to…
Ignoring citizens’ privacy to build a centralized database and track people

Data Sharing / DOGE, immigration, privacy, Wired

DOGE is taking agency data in an effort to compile a master database…
Comic Sans map

Maps / Comic Sans, Vole.wtf

The Comic Sans Map by Vole.wtf is proof that if you make enough…
Research suggests less Facebook and Instagram is better for your emotional state

Statistics / emotion, NBER, social media

The National Bureau of Economic Research studied before-and-after effects of about 20,000 users…
Teens noting negative effects on people their age

Statistical Visualization / Pew Research, social media, teen

Pew Research, in their ongoing surveys on teens and social media usage, highlight…
Halt of data collection that measures American society

Data Sharing / government, ProPublica, takedown, transparency

As data provides ways to more accurately estimate how things are going, the…
List of NOAA datasets to be discontinued

Data Sources / government, NOAA, takedown

If you use NOAA data, now seems like a good time to download…
Snake (the game) on a globe

Maps / Engaging Data, game, Snake

The goal of Snake is to direct a snake towards food, and each…
Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories illustrated with charts

Infographics / humor, Kurt Vonnegut, storytelling

New to me, a couple decades ago, author Kurt Vonnegut delivered a lecture…
American Crying

Data Underload / crying

People cry for different reasons and some tend to cry more than others. What makes people cry the most?
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Breaking Out of Chart Software Defaults

The Process / default, editing, highlight

Defaults are good for quick and disposable charts. However, when the audience extends beyond yourself, it’s time to customize around purpose.
Asymmetric Monstrosity map projection

Maps / Daniel Huffman, projections

Part amusement and part learning exercise, the “asymmetric monstrosity” by Daniel Huffman is…
Sharp flip in probabilities of parties winning Canada election

Statistical Visualization / Canada, CBC, election, probability

Since early 2024, polls showed near certainty that Conservatives in Canada were going…
Reach of a deadly wildfire in South Korea

Maps / Reuters, satellite imagery, South Korea, wildfire

South Korea experienced its largest and most deadly wildfire last month in Uiseong…

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