Nathan Yau

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Google Fusion Tables Shutdown, Lack of Preservation, and Finding Alternatives

The Process / archive, Google

Google announced that Fusion Tables will be laid to rest, which highlights a need for preservation of visualization for the long-term.

Apps gather your location and then sell the data

Statistics / location, New York Times, privacy

The New York Times takes a closer look at the data that apps…

Single-Income Occupations

Data Underload / income, jobs, work

About 18 percent of couple households are single-income. I wanted to know what the earner in these homes usually do.

When cycling is faster than driving

Statistics / commute, cycling, Deliveroo, driving

Deliveroo is a service that picks up and delivers food. Data from their…

Falling ticket prices for longer flights

Infographics / Economist, flights, pricing

Based on data from Expedia, this is an interesting one from The Economist.…

Cohort and age effects

Statistics / causation, humor, xkcd

I’m just gonna put this xkcd comic right here.…

Population mountains

Maps / 3-d, population, Pudding

You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you…

Reduced privacy risk in exchange for accuracy in the Census count

Statistics / census, privacy, uncertainty, Upshot

Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…

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Visualization the Medium, the Amorphous Blobby

The Process / film, medium

A couple of famous directors were defending animated films as a medium rather than a genre of film meant for kids. I got to thinking about the parallels to visualization.

Heatmap shows deaths by age in different countries

Statistical Visualization / age, mortality

This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…

Same facts but different stories, an illustration

Infographics / point of view

Multiple people can look at the same dataset and come out the other…

Blockchain mapping

Data Sharing / blockchain, GPS

Shannon Mattern for The Atlantic on how blockchain might be useful in mapping…

A visualization book using only hand-drawn illustrations

Design / book, hand-drawn, illustration

RJ Andrews has a visualization design book coming out in January called Info…

Defining visualization literacy

Visualization / literacy, research

Michael Correll on the use of “visualization literacy” in research:
If people (and,…

Teaching kids data visualization

Statistical Visualization / kids, teaching

Jonathan Schwabish gave his fourth-grade son’s class a lesson on data visualization. He…

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Data Tools and Resources Roundup, November 2018

The Process / roundup

Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for November.

Lessons from posting a fake map about pies

Mistaken Data / fake, humor, viral

Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…

Based on the “half-your-age-plus-seven” rule, the range of people you can date expands with age. Combine that with population counts and demographics, and you can find when your non-creepy dating pool peaks.