Nathan Yau

The redacted version (pdf) of the Mueller report was released today. Here’s the…

The welcoming nature of the data community was one of the reasons I switched to Statistics. Let’s keep it that way.

Feeding off the words of John Tukey, Roger Peng proposes a search for…

Notre-Dame in Paris, France was on fire. The New York Times describes what…

For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it…

For The Upshot, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Margot Sanger-Katz, consulted economists to…

In this issue I go over my somewhat delayed shift towards making charts that work in different screen sizes and the tools that work for me.

As many know (I hope), what we see on social media often doesn’t…

A few years back, The Washington Post illustrated every death in Game of…

For the Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Kevin Uhrmacher parsed the social media…

The New York Times illustrated what likely happened in the Ethiopian Airlines and…

FiveThirtyEight uses forecasts to attach probabilities to politics and sports, and they get…

Context makes data useful. Without it, it’s easy to get lost in numbers…

The Economist charted the divisions within political parties using Brexit votes as proxy.…

There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…

Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped…

Matt Hong used a stacked bar chart over time as the frame for…

Everyone’s story is a little different. Alyssa Fowers tracked her long-distance relationship in…