Nathan Yau

When you try to describe the size of something but don’t have an…

There are endangered species where the remaining few in the world could fit…

Typhoon Mangkhut went through the northern end of the Phillipines a few days…

I talked with Moritz and Enrico on Data Stories, my favorite visualization podcast.…

The Weather Channel is using a realistic 3-D depiction surrounding a reporter to…

Waffle House activated their storm center in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Their restaurants…

Brian House collected polluted water with acid mine drainage in the Tshimologong Precinct,…

Google released Dataset Search to the world last week. Here are my first impressions.

Hurricane Florence is forecast to touch down Thursday night or Friday, and what’s…

Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…

I’m always down for faux vintage, online recreations of actual vintage visualization-related things.…

You’ve probably seen the maps of Earth at night. It gives you a…

Graham Douglas, a data journalist at The Economist, looks back on the days…

In a collaboration with Siena College, The Upshot is showing live polling results.…

Visualization as template-filling content is lazy visualization that no one draws benefit from. Give people a reason to care.

Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…

Sports visualization and analysis tends to focus on gameplay — where the players…

It’s getting hotter around the world. The New York Times zooms in on…

Post-game sports interviews tend to sound similar. And when you do say something…

When the web was relatively new, things were more of a free-for-all. Everything…