Nathan Yau

Huetone for accessible color systems

Apps / accessibility, Alexey Ardov, color

There is no shortage of color-picking tools, but it seems there can never…
Internationalization of K-Pop

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, international, K-pop, music

K-pop grew mainstream-popular in countries outside South Korea over the past few years.…
Basketball globe

Maps / Andy Woodruff, basketball, Kirk Goldsberry, world

Kirk Goldsberry, with help from Andy Woodruff, combined two joys — basketball and…
Map of job gains and losses

Maps / jobs, New York Times

To show the counties with more or fewer jobs when comparing 2023 to…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, August 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. This is the good stuff for August 2024.
Visualizing poverty levels with a plant metaphor

Data Art / Kristin Baumann, poverty

To show poverty in the Pacific Region between age groups, gender, and location,…
Renting vs. Owning a Home as We Get Older

Data Underload / age, house, mortgage, rent

One-third of households are rented and the other two-thirds are owned or in the process. However, the difference between renting and owning changes with age.
Air Quality Stripes

Statistical Visualization / air quality, pollution

In a riff on Climate Stripes, which shows global temperature change as a…
AI-based travel agent

Artificial Intelligence / New York Times, travel

In the latest of the genre I-followed-AI-advice-blindly-here-is-what-I-got, Ceylan Yeğinsu for the New York…
Scammed out of life savings, a line chart

Statistical Visualization / annotation, Bloomberg, scam

Annette Manes, a retired widow and single mother who saved by spending little,…
Data GIF Maker lets you make animated GIFs with data

Apps / animation, GIF, Google

The Data GIF Maker is a fun tool from Google that lets you…
Tracking time wasted scrolling

Self-surveillance / Ben Grosser, scroll, TikTok

Ben Grosser made a personal mini-site that indicates whether or not he’s on…
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Unexpected Places

The Process / audience, medium, purpose

You spent time and effort on a data project and it ends up in unexpected places. Do you just shrug and let it pass or do you try to get a handle on the work so that it’s not misconstrued out of context?
Maps of climate tipping points

Maps / climate change, New York Times, tipping point

The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will…
Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians

Infographics / superblock, urban planning, Washington Post

Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a…
Meat industry olympic chart

Infographics / David Mora, meat, video

Speaking of data projects in unexpected places, David Mora repurposed one of my…
Name guessing probabilities on talk radio

Site News / names, radio

A few years ago, I made an interactive chart that guesses your name…
Sun vs. Moon, a game kind of

Infographics / game, Neal Agarwal

Neal Agarwal made a game of sorts where you either click for the…
Deepfake Elon Musk to scam people out of their savings

Artificial Intelligence / deepfake, Elon Musk, ethics, New York Times, scam

It’s gotten relatively easy to replace mouth movements in video and to generate…
One million screenshots of the web’s homepages in a single layout

Network Visualization / screenshot, Urlbox

One Million Screenshots, by Urlbox, is a collection of 1,048,576 homepage screenshots in…

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