Nathan Yau

I have a feeling we’re in for a lot of manipulated videos as…

Here is the good stuff for June 2019.

In some public places, such as schools and hospitals, microphones installed with software…

In the biggest crossover event of the century, Tom Lum used the Wikipedia…

Sonja Kuijpers used abstract imagery to represent some sobering numbers:
You might be…

For The New York Times, Kevin Roose on the possibility of machines becoming…

Ben Fry using the “tropiest of design tropes”, describes his goals for visualization.…

You know those sped up videos where there’s a long line for something…

After you’ve made your carefully designed data graphics, you probably want to share them online at some point. This is how I do it.

A small discrepancy in a couple of shapefiles led to a misclassification of…

The single-family home. It’s part of the American dream, but it can be…

Researchers went around rural Pennsylvania, showing people the charts above and asking what…

Financial Times, in an effort to streamline a part of the data journalism…

Got a chuckle out of me:

Me explaining why standardizing your variables is…

Assuming you have a dataset in hand, how do you decide what visualization method to use?

For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…

Machine learning can feel like a foreign concept only useful to those with…

In its inaugural issue, Parametric Press describes how bias can easily come about…

From Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky:
In 2003, Tableau set out to pioneer self-service…