Nathan Yau

Unfortunately, you can’t just conjure data out of thin air. Well, I guess you can, but it’d probably be sort of unreliable. Kind of. Maybe. So where do you find data? Here’s where I’m at in 2019.

Sarah Weber posted a picture of a scarf that her mom knit to…

I’m always up for some scaled perspective. From David Packer:

Anyone need a…

DataKind, the organization known for helping others use data for social good, received…

Some words are harder to spell than others, and on the internet, sometimes…

Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
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By James O’Donoghue,…

Ah, the online personality quiz, oh how I missed you. Oh wait, this…

Datawrapper is an online tool that helps you make nice-looking charts for the web. No code is required. Instead, a focused interface lets you load data, pick your chart type, refine, and publish.

John Nelson turned the Grand Canyon inside out to understand the magnitude better:…

Digital assistants offer convenience, but they also offer continuous surveillance, and it’s not…

Amanda Cox is the new data editor for The New York Times:
As…

People show up unannounced at John and his mother Ann’s home in South…

Along the same lines as last week’s one-year wind time-lapse, Weather Decoded provides…

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It feels like magic. I think there’s a magic trick…

Compelling visualization doesn’t just conjure itself out of nowhere. The ideas come from somewhere, and oftentimes they build off previous ones.

Using the same National Weather Service data that powers his live-ish wind map…

As the shutdown continues, 800,000 government workers wait for something to happen. The…

This vintage recreation by graphic designer Scott Reinhard fills all the right checkboxes…