Nathan Yau

It looks like a tornado. It’s messy. It’s circular. It almost looks intentionally confusing. But how bad is it really?

At greater disparities between low resources and high volumes of sick people, doctors…

Brian Foo is the current Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. His latest…

It’d be great if we could conjure a vaccine or a “cure” seemingly…

Medical tests do not always provide certain results. Quartz illustrated this with the…

FiveThirtyEight compared six Covid-19 models for a sense of where we might be…

The timelines keep shifting and people are getting antsy for many valid (and…

Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…

Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same…

Every month, I collect visualization tools and resources that might help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for April.

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The Vocal Synthesis channel on YouTube trains text-to-speech…

Many brands that were at-risk before the pandemic or ran with low profit…

The New York Times went through the words used during press briefings, pulling…

We cannot know the true number of coronavirus-related deaths. Maybe it’s because of…

As you would imagine, what we search for online shifted over the past…

Hayleigh Moore for the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland…

If you have a room of monkeys hitting keys on typewriters for an…

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