Nathan Yau

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…

For National Geographic, Kennedy Elliot made a series of heatmaps that show the…

During a game, the range of emotions can vary widely across a crowd.…

ProPublica just released a search tool for nonprofit tax records:
The possibilities are…

Don’t step so far away from the data that you miss the details that provide meaning to the overviews.

Apparently ladybugs migrate this time of year, and it’s enough to show up…

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…