Nathan Yau

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Axis Labels, Better Than Defaults (The Process #38)

The Process / axes, context, labels

In this guide, I look maybe a little too closely at how to adjust axis labels for more readable charts.
How many Skittles packs before finding identical ones?

Statistics / combinations, Skittles

A note on a pack of Skittles reads, “No two rainbows are the…
When People Find a New Job

Data Underload / work

Looking at the 100 most common jobs people switched to, a timeline comes into view when we adjust the relative switch rates by age.
Game of Thrones death predictor

Statistics / death, Game of Thrones, modeling

Monica Ramirez tried her hand with modeling deaths on Game of Thrones and…
GitHub is meant to track code

Self-surveillance / annotation, context, GitHub

Jen Luker noted, “As amazing as @github is, it is a tool designed…
Maps of natural disasters and extreme weather

Maps / disaster, flood, hurricane, Washington Post, weather, wildfire

For The Washington Post, Tim Meko mapped floods, tornados, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, wildfires,…
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Visualization Tools and Resources, April 2019 Roundup; Visualize This Reboot

The Process / roundup

Every month I collect the new tools, resources, and datasets. Here they are for April.
Playing the odds for record-breaking Jeopardy! wins

Statistics / FiveThirtyEight, Jeopardy

James Holzhauer is the new hotness on Jeopardy! with Daily Double hunting, big…
Damian Lillard’s Game-Winner in Context

Chart Everything / basketball, Damian Lillard, R

Here are all the playoff threes he’s made in his playoff career, plus some R code.
When bad data leads to a disappearing neighborhood

Statistics / Google Maps, missing data

Caitlin Dewey for OneZero describes the case of the Fruit Belt neighborhood in…
Does the first to 100 points usually win in the NBA?

Statistics / basketball, Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Clippers commentator Ralph Lawler has a saying: “First to 100 wins.…
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How to Make a Moving Bubble Chart, Based on a Dataset

Tutorials / d3js

Ooo, bubbles… It’s not the most visually efficient method, but it’s one of the more visually satisfying ones.
Stephen Curry scores every arena’s popcorn

Self-surveillance / New York Times, popcorn, Stephen Curry

I marked this article for later reading. It’s about Stephen Curry’s love of…
A more detailed view of the Mueller Report

Infographics / Axios, Mueller

By now we’ve all seen the zoomed out thumbnail view of the Mueller…
Explore generative models and latent space with a simple spreadsheet interface

Statistics / generative models, images, latent space

Generative models can seem like a magic box where you plug in observed…
Redacted

Chart Everything / Mueller, report

The redacted version (pdf) of the Mueller report was released today. Here’s the…
DataCamp noindex (The Process #36)

The Process / DataCamp, harassment

The welcoming nature of the data community was one of the reasons I switched to Statistics. Let’s keep it that way.
Exploring data to form better questions

Statistics / design, exploration, John Tukey, Roger Peng

Feeding off the words of John Tukey, Roger Peng proposes a search for…
What happened at Notre-Dame

Infographics / New York Times, Notre-Dame

Notre-Dame in Paris, France was on fire. The New York Times describes what…
Facial recognition machine for $60

Statistics / face detection, New York Times, privacy

For The New York Times, Sahil Chinoy on privacy and how easy it…

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