Nathan Yau

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…

There are many racial disparities in education. ProPublica shows estimates for the gaps:…

The Washington Post provides a flyover view of the barriers at the U.S.-Mexico…

As I worked on a wide range of charts recently, I got to thinking about workflow. How does one get from dataset to finished data graphic? This is my process.

When you drink bubble tea, ideally you’d like to finish with the same…

A few months back, Microsoft released a comprehensive dataset that included the estimated…

Based on data from the Census Bureau, National Geographic mapped predominant race in…

Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec continue on their path of Dear Data with…

If the charts themselves are fairly straightforward without any dubious design choices, are you still “lying with charts” when only the data itself was manipulated?

As you click through the news, you can probably almost always figure out…

There was a survey a while back that asked people to provide a…

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This 3-D view inside Hurricane Maria, from NASA’s Scientific Visualization…

FiveThirtyEight and The Trace investigate the uncertainty and accuracy of gun injury data…

Getting into data science typically requires that you have access to a decent…

The truth is that all charts are misleading. In some sense. The key is minimizing how much.

Opportunity Atlas, a collaboration between Opportunity Insights and the Census Bureau, is the…