Nathan Yau

FiveThirtyEight has been predicting NBA games for a few years now, based on…

For The Washington Post, Lauren Tierney and Joe Fox mapped fall foliage colors…

Visualization has a way of making things feel more concrete and definite. So how is it that interpretation gets so fuzzy?

Here in northern California, PG&E is shutting off power to thousands of households…

A quick annotation by Jonnie Hallman on Twitter: “GitHub is really good at…

As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…

Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…

David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…

Toph Tucker used to make graphics for Bloomberg Businessweek. Now he does enterprise…

The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…

Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
By…

A couple of weeks ago, The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts using…

This is perfect. Willikin Wolf made characters out of two dots moving along…

In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…

Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…

Every month I collect the latest visualization tools and resources on how to make the most of your data. Here’s the good stuff for September.

The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…