Nathan Yau

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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