Nathan Yau

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Small Tools for Visualization (The Process 101)

The Process / tools

We know the big ones. Now here are the small ones. Focused. Efficient.
Malofiej winners announced for 2019

Infographics / award, Malofiej

Malofiej, which in the visual journalism sphere is a high-tier honor to win…
Distribution of unemployment at the tract level

Maps / coronavirus, unemployment, Upshot

We’ve been hearing a lot about national unemployment rate, but it’s not uniformly…
Electricity sources by state

Statistical Visualization / carbon, electricty, Washington Post

With Joe Biden calling for 100% clean electricity, John Muyskens and Juliet Eilperin…
Finding the New Age, for Your Age

Data Underload / age, life expectancy

You’ve probably heard the lines about how “40 is the new 30” or “30 is the new 20.” What is this based on? I tried to solve the problem using life expectancy data. Your age is the new age.
Illustrated color catalog of minerals

Infographics / color, James Sowerby, minerals, nature, Nicholas Rougeux

Between 1802 and 1817, James Sowerby cataloged and illustrated 718 minerals across seven…
Five years from now

Miscellaneous / humor, projections, SMBC

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal can see the future.…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – July 2020 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for July.
What schools might look like if students go back

Infographics / coronavirus, New York Times, school

Dana Goldstein, with illustrations by Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, imagines what school might look like…
What YouTube recommendations look like for others

Statistics / recommendations, YouTube

Watch enough YouTube, and you end up in a bubble of videos catered…
Tracking what happens to police after use of force on protestors

Statistics / force, police, ProPublica, protest

You’ve probably seen the videos. ProPublica is tracking to see what happens after:…
Tic-Tac-Toe the Hard Way is a podcast about the human decisions in building a machine learning system

Statistics / Google, machine learning, podcast, Tic-Tac-Toe

From Google’s People + AI Research team, David Weinberger and Yannick Assogba build…
Spacecraft orbits

Infographics / Jonathan Corum, New York Times, orbit, space

For The New York Times, Jonathan Corum illustrated the dozens of spacecraft orbiting…
If the unemployed lose $600 per week

Statistical Visualization / benefit, coronavirus, Ella Koeze, New York Times, scrollytelling, unemployment

A $600 per week benefit expires for the unemployed at the end of…
Defining ’90s music, based on song recognition

Statistical Visualization / music, Pudding

In search of songs that define music in the 1990s, Matt Daniels and…
Wearing masks and infection rate

Infographics / Connie Jin, coronavirus, mask, NPR

Studies suggest that wide adoption of masks can reduce the spread of the…
Comparing U.S. coronavirus case rates to other hot spots

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, Lauren Letherby, New York Times, scale, scrollytelling

The numbers are high here in the United States, and at this point,…
Visualizing periodicity with animations

Design / animation, d3js, periodicity, Pierre Ripoll

Pierre Ripoll provides several ways to visualize periodicity using animation. Moving dots, rotating…
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Maybe They’re Just Not Good at Charts Yet (The Process 099)

The Process / Georgia, learning, misleading

This week, people were taking a closer look at the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Covid-19 status page (again), which led to an unnecessary pile-on.
Park sounds before and during the pandemic

Maps / coronavirus, machine learning, MIT Senseable City Lab, park, sound

With lockdown orders arounds the world, places that we’re allowed to go sound…

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