Nathan Yau

Fixing the ‘impeach this’ map with a transition to a cartogram

Maps / election, impeachment

As discussed previously, the “impeach this” map has some issues. Mainly, it equates…
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How to Make Animated Visualization GIFs with ImageMagick

Tutorials / animation, ImageMagick

Using the library command-line gets you more flexibility to highlight the important parts of the data.
With terminal cancer, a patient tracks drug dose in a dashboard over her final days

Self-surveillance / dashboard, mortality

Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…
Animated line chart to show the rich paying less taxes

Statistical Visualization / New York Times, rich, Stuart A. Thompson, taxes

David Leonhardt, for The New York Times, discusses the relatively low tax rates…
The early beginnings of visual thinking

Statistical Visualization / history, Howard Wainer, Michael Friendly, visual thinking

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…
Differences between enterprise data visualization and data journalism

Design / Bloomberg, business, data journalism

Toph Tucker used to make graphics for Bloomberg Businessweek. Now he does enterprise…
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Visualization for Analysis vs. Visualization for an Audience (The Process #59)

The Process / analysis, audience

The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.
Game: How many US cities can you name?

Maps / city, game, population

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…
The ‘impeach this’ map has some issues

Mistaken Data / election

Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
By…
Animating a lot of dots with WebGL and REGL.js

Coding / JavaScript, REGL, WebGL

A couple of weeks ago, The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts using…
Diverging line plot as the perfect comic

Infographics / comic, Willikin Wolf

This is perfect. Willikin Wolf made characters out of two dots moving along…
Pixelation to represent endangered species counts

Data Art / animals, endangered, pixels

In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…
Detailed generative art in R

Data Art / generative art, R, Thomas Lin Pedersen

Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, September 2019 Roundup (The Process #58)

The Process / roundup

Every month I collect the latest visualization tools and resources on how to make the most of your data. Here’s the good stuff for September.
Street suffixes show the organization of cities

Maps / names, roads

The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…
Analysis of street network orientation in cities

Statistical Visualization / directions, Geoff Boeing, streets

Continuing his analysis of street grid-iness in cities around the world, Geoff Boeing…
Statistical fallacies in the news

Statistics / fallacies, news, trust

For UnHerd, Tom Chivers, talks about David Spiegelhalter’s new book and why every…
Jewelry based on your GPS traces

Data Art / GPS, jewelry, Rachel Binx

GPX Jewelry by Rachel Binx lets you turn your GPS traces into jewelry.…
AI-generated faces as stock photos

Statistics / AI, faces, photos

The Generated Photos project is a work in progress to provide realistic AI-generated…
History of Tetris randomizers

Statistics / randomness, Tetris

Tetris is a game with foundations in randomness. Pieces are distributed randomly to…

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