Nathan Yau

Using estimates from the Database of Road Transportation Emissions, Nadja Popovich and Denise…

This week I reminisce back to when I didn’t know anything about visualization, and all I wanted to do was solve analysis problems. Also, some fun updates on the way, exclusively for members.

For Knowable Magazine, Betsy Mason looks at the state of (not so good)…

It’s time to kick the tires on some new tools.

You’ve probably seen the composite map of lights at night from NASA. It…

For xkcd fans, here’s a JavaScript library by Tim Qian that lets you…

Elizabeth Warren has big plans, and they would cost a lot with a…

There are many tools to clean up your data, and they can be helpful with the right dataset and situation. I tend to stick to a small handful. Here’s what works for me.

Randall Munroe of xkcd was on the Data Stories podcast. He talks about…

Interested in reviews on the Sephora website for waterproof makeup, Connie Ye figured…

Stephen M. Stigler argues that data have a limited shelf life. The abstract:…

In a follow-up to a map from a few years back, Andy Woodruff…

I always enjoy me some scale of space graphics. Neal Agarwal made an…

Laughter online is full of nuances. A capitalization of some letters or a…

Every month, I collect new visualization tools, code, and datasets, along with helpful resources. Here’s the good stuff for October.

ProPublica, with The Advocate and The Times-Picayune, estimated chemical concentrations in a highly…