Nathan Yau

Illustrated color theory

Design / color

Lauren Baldo illustrated how he applies color theory in his paintings and illustrations.…
Peak accommodation type at national parks

Infographics / camping, park

When staying at national parks, some people choose a tent. Some bring an…
Maps of the movies and their characters

Maps / Back to the Future, fiction, movies

Andrew DeGraff painted maps that show the geography in movies and their characters’…
Blanket pattern visualizes baby’s sleep data

Data Art / baby, blanket, sleep

Seung Lee collected sleep data for his son’s first year. Then he knitted…
Isotype, a picture language

Infographics / Isotype, language

Jason Forrest delves into the history of a single Isotype and a bit…
Searching for the densest square kilometer in different cities

Maps / density, population

Based on data from Gridded Population of the World, geographer Garrett Dash Nelson…
How practitioners learned data visualization

Visualization / learning, practice

Visualization is still a relatively young field, so people learn about and how…
Airport runway orientation reveals wind patterns

Maps / airport, correlation, wind

Airport runways orient certain directions that correlate with wind direction in the area.…
Exploration of players’ shot improvement in the NBA

Statistical Visualization / basketball, time series

Wondering whether if a player’s shot improves over the course of his career,…
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Adjusting the Point of Reference to Highlight Different Aspects of the Data (The Process #49)

The Process / baseline, point of reference

They provide an anchor in your charts, and you compare everything else against the anchor. Where you set the anchor changes your chart completely.
Animation in visualization, revisited a decade later

Design / animation, research

Rewind to 2006 when Hans Rosling’s talk using moving bubbles was at peak…
Machine learning to erase penis drawings

Statistics / drawing, machine learning

Working from the Quick, Draw! dataset, Moniker dares people to not draw a…
How the American Work Day Changed in 15 Years

Data Underload / time use

The American Time Use Survey recently released results for 2018. That makes 15 years of data. What’s different? What’s the same?
Modern reproduction of an 1868 catalog of flower illustrations

Infographics / illustration, Nicholas Rougeux, plants, recreation

Nicholas Rougeux, who has a knack and the patience to recreate vintage works…
Make charts that ask readers to predict the line

Apps / beliefs, prediction

A few years ago, The New York Times asked readers to guess a…
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Select Your Weapon (The Process #48)

The Process / R, Tidyverse, tools

Some people love the Tidyverse in R. Others are less fond of it. For me, the more tools the better.
Data-driven hipster reading list

Infographics / books, hipster, library, The Pudding

When it comes to reading lists, we usually look for what’s popular, because…
Bachelor’s Degree Movers

Data Underload / degrees, education

As industries change and interests shift, some bachelor’s degrees grow more popular while others become less so.
Atlas of all the moons in our solar system

Infographics / moon, National Geographic, space

National Geographic went all out on their atlas of moons. Space. Orbits. Rotating…
Animated maps of seasonal Earth

Maps / Earth, Eleanor Lutz, seasonal

As you might expect, NASA collects a lot of data, and much of…

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