Nathan Yau

Data grows more intertwined with the everyday and more involved in important decisions.…

xkcd referenced the ever-so-loved forecasting needle. I’m so not gonna look at it…

A meme that cried “jobs not mobs” began modestly, but a couple of…

The Economist built an election model that treats demographic variables like blocks that…

As the midterm elections loom, the ads focusing on key issues are running…

As one might expect, many women, people of color, and L.G.B.T. candidates are…

Randall Munroe, Kelsey Harris, and Max Goodman for xkcd mapped all the challengers…

I really like what The New York Times has been doing with augmented…

Over the next few months, I’ll be looking more closely at the available visualization apps to see what works and what doesn’t. In this issue, I start with Flourish.

Shirley Wu used a tree metaphor to represent the interactions of five individuals…

It’s Halloween. Joshua Stevens mapped all the graveyards:
Right away I was struck…

In a time we commit less to memory and rely more on technology…

Jen Christiansen spoke about her extensive experience as a graphics editor for Scientific…

From Evogeneao:
This Tree of Life diagram is based primarily on the evolutionary…

Most people interested in visualization have made a chart with Microsoft Excel. For your basic charts, it’s really easy, and it works well for what it was intended for. The process of visualizing data with methods beyond the standard chart types can be more challenging at times.

Based on data from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, The Washington…

High school seniors, in the Political Statistics class at Montgomery Blair High School…

Accurat, in partnership with the Google News Initiative, built an augmented reality app…