Nathan Yau

Coral-like cities to show road networks

Data Art / coral, traffic

Craig Taylor from Ito World used a coral metaphor to visualize road networks…

The Markup is a new journalism venture to examine technology through data

News / data journalism, technology

Founded by Sue Gardner, the former head of the Wikimedia Foundation and Julia…

Constructing charts and graphs

Statistical Visualization / components, Jeffrey Heer, lunch talk

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Jeffrey Heer, a computer science professor at the University of…

Summer rain levels compared to the norms

Maps / rain, Washington Post, weather

Tim Meko and Aaron Steckelberg for The Washington Post compared this summer’s rains…

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Practicing with a Visualization Toolbox, Tools and Additional Resources Roundup – September 2018

The Process / roundup, tools

If you’re trying to learn how to work with data, make time to fiddle with the toys in your growing toolbox. Otherwise, you just have a bunch of bookmarks and no new skills.

Morph, an open-source tool for data-driven art without code

Data Art / generative art, Google

Morph, by Datavized in collaboration with the Google News Initiative, is a tool…

One Drink Per Day, Your Chances of Developing an Alcohol-Related Condition

Data Underload / alcohol, risk

While a drink a day might increase your risk of experiencing an alcohol-related condition, the change is low in absolute numbers.

Timeline of Earth

Infographics / Earth, timeline

Here’s a fun piece by Andy Bergmann that shows the timeline of Earth.…

The rise and plummet of the name Heather

Statistics / Heather, names, Quartz

Hey, no one told me that baby name analysis was back in fashion.…

xkcd: Curve-fitting messages

Infographics / curves, humor, xkcd

xkcd tells it like it is.…

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Chart Components and Working On Your Graphics Piece-wise

The Process / components

Break the visualization into its basic pieces to make it easier to make, edit, and reuse.

Judging connectedness of American communities, based on Facebook friendships

Maps / communities, connections, facebook, Upshot

We talk about geographic bubbles a lot these days. Some areas are isolated,…

Watch rising river levels after Hurricane Florence

Maps / hurricane, New York Times, water, weather

Hurricane Florence brought a lot of rain, which in turn made river levels…

Cuisine Ingredients

Data Underload / cuisine, food, ingredient

What are the ingredients that make each cuisine? I looked at 40,000 recipes spanning 20 cuisines and 6,714 ingredients to see what makes food taste different.