Nathan Yau

In the spirit of the holidays, here are the tools I am most thankful for. Without them, work would be much more tedious and painful.

Michelle Chandra uses street data as a base for solvable mazes:
I draw…

In news graphics, blue typically represents Democrat and red represents Republican. However, the…

Kyle McDonald describes some of the history and current research on using algorithms…

When you go skiing or snowboarding, you get a map of the mountain…

Newsy, Reveal and ProPublica look into rape cases in the U.S. and law…

The Camp fire death toll rose to 63 and 631 missing as of…

Important question: Is animation in visualization even worthwhile? Well, it depends. Surprise, surprise. In this issue, I look at animation in data visualization, its uses, and how I like to think about it when I implement moving data.

I’m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but Reply…

Atma Mani, a geospatial engineer for ESRI, imagined shopping for a house with…

From Streetscapes by Zeit:
Street names are stories of life. They tell us…

Reading visualization research papers can often feel like a slog. As a necessity,…

Charles-Joseph Minard, best known for a graphic he made (during retirement, one year…

The Earth Puzzle by generative design studio Nervous System has no defined borders.…

Election night has become quite the event for newsrooms and graphics departments over the years, and the visualization production cycle has started to feel more familiar each time.

Ben Schmidt uses deep scatterplots to visualize millions of data points. It’s a…

The Guardian goes with scaled, angled arrows to show the Republican and Democrat…

Artificial intelligence, given its name, sounds like a computer learns everything its own.…

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