Nathan Yau

From Streetscapes by Zeit:
Street names are stories of life. They tell us…

Reading visualization research papers can often feel like a slog. As a necessity,…

Charles-Joseph Minard, best known for a graphic he made (during retirement, one year…

The Earth Puzzle by generative design studio Nervous System has no defined borders.…

Election night has become quite the event for newsrooms and graphics departments over the years, and the visualization production cycle has started to feel more familiar each time.

Ben Schmidt uses deep scatterplots to visualize millions of data points. It’s a…

The Guardian goes with scaled, angled arrows to show the Republican and Democrat…

Artificial intelligence, given its name, sounds like a computer learns everything its own.…

Data grows more intertwined with the everyday and more involved in important decisions.…

xkcd referenced the ever-so-loved forecasting needle. I’m so not gonna look at it…

A meme that cried “jobs not mobs” began modestly, but a couple of…

The Economist built an election model that treats demographic variables like blocks that…

As the midterm elections loom, the ads focusing on key issues are running…

As one might expect, many women, people of color, and L.G.B.T. candidates are…

Randall Munroe, Kelsey Harris, and Max Goodman for xkcd mapped all the challengers…

I really like what The New York Times has been doing with augmented…

Over the next few months, I’ll be looking more closely at the available visualization apps to see what works and what doesn’t. In this issue, I start with Flourish.

Shirley Wu used a tree metaphor to represent the interactions of five individuals…