Nathan Yau

This week, a few projects went up on the internets about money and spending, each with different goals and approaches. In this issue of The Process, we look at each more closely.

Neal Agarwal used a money printing metaphor to depict differences in various wages.…

For The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui scaled down the federal budget…

Reddit user quantum-kate used daily high and low temperatures in Denver in 1992…

DR used a 3-D model to recreate King Frederick the 9th’s ink:
King…

We hear about billionaires spending millions of dollars on ads, acquisitions, etc. It…

From @haru_cchii on the Twitter:
Local German Gets Bored And Tries To Name…

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,…