Nathan Yau

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

A wideout view of the news cycle can look like a series of…

Matt Baker provides this nifty diagram on how the alphabet changed over the…

Cartoonist Olivia de Recat illustrated the closeness over time for various relationships. Charming.…

For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma visualized the path…

Seems about right.…

Unfortunately, you can’t just conjure data out of thin air. Well, I guess you can, but it’d probably be sort of unreliable. Kind of. Maybe. So where do you find data? Here’s where I’m at in 2019.

Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…

I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:

Anyone need a…

DataKind, the organization known for helping others use data for social good, received…

Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…

Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
By James O’Donoghue, the animation shows…

Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this…

Datawrapper is an online tool that helps you make nice-looking charts for the web. No code is required. Instead, a focused interface lets you load data, pick your chart type, refine, and publish.

John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…

Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…

Amanda Cox is the new data editor for The New York Times:
As…