Nathan Yau

Google released Dataset Search to the world last week. Here are my first impressions.

Hurricane Florence is forecast to touch down Thursday night or Friday, and what’s…

Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…

I’m always down for faux vintage, online recreations of actual vintage visualization-related things.…

You’ve probably seen the maps of Earth at night. It gives you a…

Graham Douglas, a data journalist at The Economist, looks back on the days…

In a collaboration with Siena College, The Upshot is showing live polling results.…

Visualization as template-filling content is lazy visualization that no one draws benefit from. Give people a reason to care.

Datasets are scattered across the web, tucked into cobwebbed corners where nobody can…

Sports visualization and analysis tends to focus on gameplay — where the players…

It’s getting hotter around the world. The New York Times zooms in on…

Post-game sports interviews tend to sound similar. And when you do say something…

When the web was relatively new, things were more of a free-for-all. Everything…

Defaults are generalizations to fit many datasets, which means you usually get barebone charts. For analysis, all well and good. However, data graphics for presentation require more care after the initial output.

Nicky Case ponders the “valuable-ness” of the things he makes as the product…

Tom White is an artist who uses neural networks to draw abstract pictures…

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Pinball feels like a game of chance that is uncontrollable…

Picular is a simple tool that lets you search for a topic, and…

A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…