Nathan Yau

To increase anonymity in the Census records, the bureau is testing an algorithm…

Welcome to another episode of Misleading or Not? where we look at a chart and decide if it’s misleading or not.

For the Financial Times, Alan Smith and Steven Bernard traced the history of…

From Lusion, CineShader is a fun editor for those who are familiar with…

Google Maps incorporates data from smartphones to estimate traffic in any given location.…

Michael Keller released a new version of Layer Cake:
Layer Cake is a…

I know you don’t get enough election coverage these days and are probably…

Every month I collect resources and tools to help you better visualize data. Here’s the good stuff for January 2020.

Flow Fields, a generative art tool by Michael Freeman, lets you adjust various…

For ProPublica, Ellis Simani and Ken Schwencke compiled an interactive database that you…

Noah Veltman just posted a dataset of 23,463 personalized license plate applications that…

Sometimes illustrating scientific findings is a challenge. Sometimes the illustrations are published anyways,…

Over a year ago, Google released Dataset Search in public beta. The goal…

Using one of my recent projects as an example, I describe my non-elegant process of making a quick chart.

So get this. There are these things called radio stations that broadcast music…

File another one under the sounds-good-on-paper-but-really-challenging-in-practice. Kashmir Hill, for The New York Times,…

For The New York Times, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries looked at the current state of…

Following up on his mini-app to draw ridgeline maps for elevation, Andrei Kashcha…

For the Absurd America section of The Washington Post, Sergio Peçanha asks the…