Nathan Yau

Internet under the sea

Maps / Internet, New York Times

To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…

TwoTone is a tool to sonify your data

Apps / Datavized, Google, sonification

TwoTone, by Datavized and supported by the Google News Initiative, is a straightforward…

Inverse map of the United States

Maps / Scott Reinhard, United States

I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…

Connections and patterns in the Mueller investigation

Network Visualization / Fathom, Mueller

While we’re on the subject of distributions, Fathom used a collection of beeswarm…

High school basketball players who make it to the NBA

Infographics / basketball, high school, The Pudding

Right in my wheelhouse, Russell Goldenberg and Amber Thomas for The Pudding looked…

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Playing the Distributions, Hypothetical Outcome Plots, Getting Closer to Real Life

The Process / animation, distributions

Histograms for a general audience can be a challenge. I’m curious if building up the distributions over time can be helpful.

Light installation shows future water lines against existing structures

Data Art / climate change, water

Timo Aho and Pekka Niittyvirta used sensors, LED lights, and timers to display…

A Day in the Life: Women and Men

Data Underload / gender, time use

Using the past couple of years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I simulated a working day for men and women to see how schedules differ. Watch it play out in this animation.

Charting cholera, beyond John Snow

Statistical Visualization / cholera, John Snow, vintage

John Snow, who often gets the credit for showing the geographical patterns of…

Hatching image effect in R

Coding / hatching, R

Here’s a fun thing to try in R. Jean Fan posted some code…

Celebrity name spelling test

Infographics / Pudding, Reddit, spelling

Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…

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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – February 2019 Roundup

The Process / roundup, tools

Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for February.