Nathan Yau

Computers can generate faces that look real. What a time to be alive.…

In visual perception, a figure-ground grouping is where you recognize an object through…

Euclid’s Elements is a series of 13 books produced in 300 BC that…

The debate rages on about the categorization of food items as soup, salad,…

As I watched Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai field questions from the House Judiciary…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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