Nathan Yau

For FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Gus Wezerek categorized and mapped new abortion restrictions…

Giorgia Lupi, whose work exemplifies the use of data and visualization outside of…

Rachael Dottle, for FiveThirtyEight, looked for political differences in cities and ranked them,…

The last episode is coming. Some people don’t like how it’s ending, and…

Frans Block wondered what the world would look like if water and land…

Visualization is all about making comparisons. If you have nothing to compare to, then the chart fails. In this issue I describe some of the ways you can make your charts more comparable.

For Bloomberg, Lauren Leatherby and Paul Murray describe the heightened eagerness to enter…

Kevin Simler uses interactive simulations to explain how things — ideas, disease, memes…

If you’ve seen a basketball shot chart in the past few years, it…

Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…

Diet around the world is growing more similar. National Geographic charted estimates of…

There was renewed interest in — gasp — truncated axes this week, a never-ending debate about whether starting axes at non-zero is misleading.

Ted Mellnik and Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post describe the changes to…

Raising living things requires resources. In the case of fish, it requires more…

In prototyping mode, Susie Lu incorporated visualization into the common receipt from the…

I think I started watching Game of Thrones around the fourth season (my…

There are many chart types to choose from, which is great, because there’s…

In this guide, I look maybe a little too closely at how to adjust axis labels for more readable charts.

A note on a pack of Skittles reads, “No two rainbows are the…