Nathan Yau

Other than calls from my wife, I can’t even remember the last call…

For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called…

Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…

Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…

Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of…

John Tukey wrote, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” Not everyone wants to see though.

FastCharts is the public version of the Financial Times’ in-house solution for making…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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