Nathan Yau

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Shifting to Responsive Charts, Tools for Mobile (The Process #35)

The Process / mobile, responsive design

In this issue I go over my somewhat delayed shift towards making charts that work in different screen sizes and the tools that work for me.
Contrasting social media Democrats to real life

Infographics / elections, social media, Upshot

As many know (I hope), what we see on social media often doesn’t…
All of the deaths in Game of Thrones

Infographics / deaths, Game of Thrones, Washington Post

A few years back, The Washington Post illustrated every death in Game of…
Issues Democratic hopefuls are talking about on social media

Infographics / social media, Washington Post

For the Washington Post, Kevin Schaul and Kevin Uhrmacher parsed the social media…
Bad data from a faulty sensor on the Boeing 737 Max

Infographics / Boeing, crash, New York Times

The New York Times illustrated what likely happened in the Ethiopian Airlines and…
FiveThirtyEight evaluates their forecasts

Statistics / FiveThirtyEight, forecasting

FiveThirtyEight uses forecasts to attach probabilities to politics and sports, and they get…
Finding context for the data

Statistics / context, data journalism

Context makes data useful. Without it, it’s easy to get lost in numbers…
Brexit voting divisions

Infographics / Brexit, Economist

The Economist charted the divisions within political parties using Brexit votes as proxy.…
Census data downloader to reformat for humans

Data Sources / census, formatting, Los Angeles Times

There is a lot of Census data. You can grab most of the…
Where the IRS most likely audits

Maps / IRS, ProPublica, taxes

Using estimates from a study on regional bias in tax audits, ProPublica mapped…
Data comic shows an average American day

Infographics / comic, time use

Matt Hong used a stacked bar chart over time as the frame for…
A long distance relationship between a temperature difference

Self-surveillance / Alyssa Fowers, relationships, temperature

Everyone’s story is a little different. Alyssa Fowers tracked her long-distance relationship in…
Texting history after the first swipe

Self-surveillance / relationships, texting

Speaking of relationship timelines, Chris Lewis used texting history with his girlfriend after…
Remaking charts from The Economist, by a journalist at The Economist

Design / Economist, remake

Sarah Leo, a visual journalist at The Economist, looked through the archives and…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – March 2019 Roundup (The Process #34)

The Process / roundup, tools

Every month I collect practical resources, new tools, code, and datasets. Here’s the good stuff for March.
Mapping the cheapest flights to everywhere, given your location

Maps / flights, prices

Sometimes you really do need to get away. Escape, part search engine and…
Happiness and Health

Data Underload / happiness, health

When one goes down, so does the other. If only there were a way to keep more people healthy.
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How to Make a Bump Chart in R

Tutorials / R

Visualize rankings over time instead of absolute values to focus on order instead of the magnitude of change.
The Stages of Relationships, Distributed

Data Underload / marriage, relationships

Everyone’s relationship timeline is a little different. This animation plays out real-life paths to marriage.
Data for 200M traffic stop records

Data Sources / police, tickets, traffic

The Stanford Open Policing Project just released a dataset for police traffic stops…

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