Nathan Yau

It’s Halloween. Joshua Stevens mapped all the graveyards:
Right away I was struck…

In a time we commit less to memory and rely more on technology…

Jen Christiansen spoke about her extensive experience as a graphics editor for Scientific…

From Evogeneao:
This Tree of Life diagram is based primarily on the evolutionary…

Most people interested in visualization have made a chart with Microsoft Excel. For your basic charts, it’s really easy, and it works well for what it was intended for. The process of visualizing data with methods beyond the standard chart types can be more challenging at times.

Based on data from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, The Washington…

High school seniors, in the Political Statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School…

Accurat, in partnership with the Google News Initiative, built an augmented reality app…

There are many racial disparities in education. ProPublica shows estimates for the gaps:…

The Washington Post provides a flyover view of the barriers at the U.S.-Mexico…

As I worked on a wide range of charts recently, I got to thinking about workflow. How does one get from dataset to finished data graphic? This is my process.

When you drink bubble tea, ideally you’d like to finish with the same…

A few months back, Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset that included the estimated…

Based on data from the Census Bureau, National Geographic mapped predominant race in…

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec continue on their path of Dear Data with…

If the charts themselves are fairly straightforward without any dubious design choices, are you still “lying with charts” when only the data itself was manipulated?

As you click through the news, you can probably almost always figure out…

There was a survey a while back that asked people to provide a…