Nathan Yau

For Lapham’s Quarterly, Elizabeth Della Zazzera turns back the clock to maps used…

Krist Wongsuphasawat, who recently interviewed for a healthy helping of visualization jobs, outlines…

Fathom Information Design recently made tools to find patterns in documents of text.…

For The Pudding, Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg used Wikipedia pageviews to replace…

James Holzhauer is on a record-breaking Jeopardy! win streak. It’s not so much…

Every month I collect links to visualization tools and resources. Here’s the good stuff for May 2019.

Christine Sun Kim, a deaf artist known for her work visualizing and creating…

Vox delves into why Ls and Rs often get replaced by Asian speakers…

For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda shows the decrease in coal usage for power…

For The New York Times, Keith Collins shows the growing popularity of summer…

People misinterpret charts all of the time, because they go in with the wrong expectations before they even fully interpret what a chart is about.

Shelly Tan, for The Washington Post, has been counting on-screen deaths in Game…

Ivana Seric is a data scientist for the Philadelphia 76ers who tries to…

For FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Gus Wezerek categorized and mapped new abortion restrictions…

Giorgia Lupi, whose work exemplifies the use of data and visualization outside of…

Rachael Dottle, for FiveThirtyEight, looked for political differences in cities and ranked them,…

The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…

Frans Block wondered what the world would look like if water and land…

Visualization is all about making comparisons. If you have nothing to compare to, then the chart fails. In this issue I describe some of the ways you can make your charts more comparable.