Nathan Yau

There’s less than a month until taxes are due. It’s the most wonderful…

There’s a new hotness in chart town. It’s a bar chart. But it moves to show rankings over time.

Other than calls from my wife, I can’t even remember the last call…

For FiveThirtyEight, William T. Adler and Ella Koeze describe how a metric called…

Marian Eerens charted the colors of each Adventures of Tintin book cover. The…

Compared to a computer’s pseudo-random number generator, we are not good at picking…

Trey Harris, a previous tech administrator for a university, tells the story of…

John Tukey wrote, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” Not everyone wants to see though.

FastCharts is the public version of the Financial Times’ in-house solution for making…

To connect servers around the world, there are actual cables that run under…

TwoTone, by Datavized and supported by the Google News Initiative, is a straightforward…

I’m thoroughly enjoying the work coming from graphic designer Scott Reinhard as of…

While we’re on the subject of distributions, Fathom used a collection of beeswarm…

Right in my wheelhouse, Russell Goldenberg and Amber Thomas for The Pudding looked…

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…