Nathan Yau

This week, we talk annotation and how it can make your charts more readable and easier to understand.

The New York Times is in a quizzy mood lately. Must be all…

Add a book to the humorous-charts-documenting-the-everyday genre. Am I Overthinking This? by Michelle…

Dorota M. Skowron et al. made the first 3-D map of the galaxy.…

For Carto, Matt Forrest explains why you shouldn’t use ZIP codes for spatial…

Speaking of earthquakes, Will Chase looked back at a 2012 earthquake in Sumatra…

For The New York Times, Derek Watkins used animated maps to show how…

For everyone who does data visualization for a living right now, there was someone who came before.

Over the past four years, Planet deployed 293 satellites in low orbit to…

This animated interactive explains how a research group is using light to measure…

In a compare-your-preconceptions-against-reality quiz, The Upshot asks, “Are you rich?” Enter your nearest…

Gerry uses congressional district boundaries as letters. Hahahahaha. Oh wait.…

Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources. Here’s the good stuff for July.

Using blobbies with varying traits such as size, speed, and food gathering ability,…

Lauren Baldo illustrated how he applies color theory in his paintings and illustrations.…

When staying at national parks, some people choose a tent. Some bring an…