Nathan Yau

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…

Colin Morris culled common misspellings on Reddit and made the data available on…

Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for February.

Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…

Rosenfeld, et al. from Stanford University ran a survey in 2009 for a…

Speaking of 3-D usage on maps, here’s a map of bus routes in…

Based on commuting data from the Census Bureau, researchers Matthew Hall, John Iceland,…

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For SB Nation, Jon Bois takes a statistical deep dive…

“How do I make my data come alive? I want it to sing. I want it to dance.” Here are some ways to achieve that.

Leslie Roberts uses paint to encode text as colors and geometry:
My paintings…

The United States is doing pretty poorly in reducing emissions. For The New…

Lucas Kwan Peterson for the Los Angeles Times ranked fast food french fries.…