Nathan Yau

It wasn’t just issues with an app. There appears to be many more…

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…