Nathan Yau

Defaults are generalizations to fit many datasets, which means you usually get barebone charts. For analysis, all well and good. However, data graphics for presentation require more care after the initial output.

Nicky Case ponders the “valuable-ness” of the things he makes as the product…

Tom White is an artist who uses neural networks to draw abstract pictures…

Pinball feels like a game of chance that is uncontrollable from any angle.…

Picular is a simple tool that lets you search for a topic, and…

A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…

Using a mathematical model based on satellite data, NASA shows an estimate of…

It can feel like there’s so many rules of visualization that it’s impossible to make a proper visualization. The key: Nothing is absolute.

Lucy Engelman has synesthesia, which is a perceptual response where one sensory pathway…

Peter Beshai was tasked with visualizing the toxicity in Twitter conversations. He arrived…

Statistics. I kid, I kid. Hugo Bowne-Anderson, host of the DataFramed podcast, culled…

A fun experiment by Neil Charles that used the aesthetics of wind maps…

Ever since the huge forecasting upset in 2016, I’ve tended to stay away…

Frustrated with the size of pockets on women’s pants, Jan Diehm and Amber…

Made-by-hand visualization has been making a mini comeback as of late, and it’s been fun to see what people do with data away from the computer.

Of course, we don’t have the time to draw every chart and map by hand, but there are some parts of the practice we can use in our own work.

Peter Aldhous for BuzzFeed News delves into the increasing number of wildfires in…

The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…

Map-making is a tricky business with many variables to consider that can directly…