Nathan Yau

Cutting the cost of tokens

Artificial Intelligence / Anthropic, cost, Max Woolf, OpenAI

On a per token basis, the cost of using LLMs from Anthropic and…
Full 3-D scan and live body metrics for Neal’s about page

Self-surveillance / 3-D, body, Neal Agarwal

You know the about pages on every site that provide a summary of…
Primer for geospatial embeddings

Statistics / Development Seed, embeddings, geospatial, guide, training

For Development Seed, Kiri Carini and Martha Morrissey explain what embeddings are and…
What happens to math going forward

Artificial Intelligence / math, New York Times, OpenAI, Terence Tao

Terence Tao has become the unofficial spokesperson for the future of mathematics. Elisabeth…
When AI comes for purpose

Artificial Intelligence / math, New York Times, purpose, Steven Strogatz

Mathematician and Cornell professor Steven Strogatz was a guest on NYT’s Daily podcast…
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Avoiding charts by default

The Process / creativity, default

This week, we switch the chart defaults to non-defaults.
Cost of electricity from investor-owned vs. public

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, cost, electricity

If your electricity provider is an investor-owned company, it’s likely you’re paying more…
Rising to top net worth, by age

Data Underload / net worth, wealth

Results from the Survey of Consumer Finances were recently released, which means it is time for a rendition of seeing who has a higher net worth than you.
Increasing number of shots in movies

Statistical Visualization / movies, shots, Stephen Follows

Stephen Follows counted the number of shots in movies, from 1920 through 2025.…
Calculation volumes for AI training

Infographics / Aatish Bhatia, calculations, scale, training, Upshot

More big numbers coming in. For NYT’s the Upshot, Aatish Bhatia demonstrates the…
Warming Stripes as a screensaver

Infographics / climate change, Georgios Karamanis, screensaver, stripes

This is fun, or I guess very serious depending on your point of…
Scale of proposed billionaire wealth tax in California

Infographics / billionaires, California, New York Times, Nicholas Konrad, scale, taxes

There is a proposition on the California ballot this year to impose a…
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Getting to know a dataset

The Process / analysis

This week, I walk through my own thinking as I poke at fresh data.
Richest getting richer

Statistical Visualization / rich, Wall Street Journal, wealth

This is really going to surprise you, but the wealthy people in the…
People holding up the internet

Infographics / Internet, open-source, sheets.works

In reference to the xkcd comic that illustrates the internet as a stack…
Searchable database of the enslaved in former British colonies

Data Sources / database, Guardian, Legacies of British Slavery, slavery

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery published a…
Learning is the thing

Artificial Intelligence / Daniel Willingham, education, students

Daniel Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia, argues that students should…
Decline in American social activities

Statistical Visualization / Data for Progress, social

Data for Progress compared social activities among American adults in 1995 against 2026.…
Interactive map of the Hebrew Bible

Infographics / Danyel Fisher, Tanakh, text

Torahmap by Danyel Fisher is an interactive visualization of the Hebrew Bible. Each…
Population pyramid in 3-D and over time

Statistical Visualization / Karim Douïeb, population, world

A population pyramid shows the age distribution of a population, usually with counts…

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