Nathan Yau

In case you’re wondering about government spending and budgets, USAFacts has a Sankey…

I published an interactive guide on reading charts, spotting the misleading ones, and visualizing data honestly. Here’s the process I used to get there.

Marcin Wichary dives deep into the Gorton font, calling it the hardest working…

Most of the major map providers changed the name. MapQuest had a different…

I think I’ve read about tariffs more in the past month than I…

The DOGE site has a “wall of receipts” that claims $55 billion in…

The administration continues its takedown of data that it doesn’t agree with. To…

The Department of Government Efficiency claims data in the Social Security Administration database…

Coming up on 50 years old, Gina Trapani mapped out her life so…

Robert Santos, who resigned last month, wrote a heartfelt open letter to Census…

For the Washington Post, Jacob Bogage and Jeff Stein report:
Under pressure from…

There was a moment a few years ago when cryptocurrency was mentioned everywhere…

From the outsider point of view, a path towards collision might seem obvious,…

How do we visualize the data that isn’t there or new estimates that arise when methodology changes?

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

After a gulf rename, I got to browsing some historical maps. Jacques Nicolas…

Cartoonist Becky Barnicoat illustrates the passing of time over a year. Seems right:…

While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…

The “Department of Government Efficiency” wants to cut $2 trillion from the federal…