Nathan Yau

One of the best ways to feel old is to look to your…

There’s a technical component of visualization that leans towards code, data formatting, and clicking the right buttons in the right order. Then there’s everything else that makes okay charts into something much better.

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui looked for major urban developments…

My main goal for FD this year was to make charts.
I hoped…

A file leaked to The New York Times contained location traces of 12…

The decade is almost done. You’re sitting there and you’re thinking: “I wish…

For The New York Times, Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi went to…

One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…

Pew Research Center analyzed online sermons in U.S. searches, taking a closer look…

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko and Lauren Tierney:
Before the 1930s, Christmas…

For Scientific American, Nicholas Rougeux and Jen Christiansen show the shift in hues…

Every month I collect links to new tools, datasets, and visualization resources. Here’s the good stuff for December 2019 and the last roundup for the decade.

Our brains are pretty good at finding patterns, but it has some blindspots…

Standardized ratings are a challenge, because they often try to encapsulate many variables…

By way of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, ProPublica and The…

Color scheme selections are nice and all, but they’re even better when viewed…

Datawrapper, a focused web tool that makes online charts easier to put together…

For Reuters, Feilding Cage describes a weather time machine project by NOAA that…