Nathan Yau

People relationships in data analysis

Statistics / analysis, human, relationships

Roger Peng discusses the importance of managing the relationships between people — analyst,…
Mapping a diverse but segregated America

Maps / diversity, race, Washington Post

Aaron Williams and Armand Emamdjomeh for The Washington Post delve into diversity and…
A game to better understand the wisdom (and madness) of crowds

Network Visualization / crowds, game, groupthink, Nicky Case

You’ve probably heard of the wisdom of crowds. The general idea, popularized by…
Data, R, and a 3-D Printer

Data Underload / 3-D printing, basketball, R

We almost always look at data through a screen. It’s quick and good for exploration. So is there value in making data physical? I played around with a 3-D printer to find out.
Visualization for an audience

Design / audience, Jonathan Corum

Jonathan Corum, the Science graphics editor at The New York Times, talks about…
All the buildings in Manhattan in 3-D map

Maps / 3-d, buildings, New York

Taylor Baldwin mapped all of the buildings in Manhattan using a 3-D layout.…
Is the hot hand in basketball real?

Statistics / basketball, hot hand, Numberphile

With Numberphile, Lisa Goldberg discusses her research with Alon Daks and Nishant Desai…
Get all caught up with The Avengers using this timeline

Infographics / Avengers, timeline, Washington Post

It’s been a decade since the first Iron Man movie, and some 30…
Building a robot boyfriend

Statistics / artificial intelligence, ethics, love, robot

When it comes to robots and love, the concept typically deteriorates to subservient…
Waiting Game, through the steps of asylum seekers

Infographics / asylum, game, ProPublica

Sisi Wei for ProPublica and Nick Fortugno of Playmatics made a game to…
Knitters and the neural network-trained machine

Statistics / knitting, neural network

Janelle Shane, who likes to play with output from neural networks, teamed up…
Here’s what you get when you cross dinosaurs and flowers with deep learning

Statistics / dinosaurs, flowers, neural network

Neural networks have shown usefulness with a number of things, but here is…
Umpire strike zone changes to finish games earlier

Infographics / baseball, FiveThirtyEight, sports, work

When watching baseball on television, we get the benefit of seeing whether a…
Abstract: The Art of Design, with Christoph Niemann

Design / Christoph Niemann, illustration

Abstract: The Art of Design kept popping up on my Netflix recommendations list…
Visualizing Differences

Guides / comparison, contrast, difference

Focus on finding or displaying contrasting points, and some visual methods are more helpful than others. A guide.
Shapes we make, seen from the sky

Data Art / geometry, Google, satellite

Look from the above at the shapes and geometry we use for cities,…
Algorithms drawn as IKEA furniture instructions

Infographics / algorithm, humor, IKEA

Learning algorithm steps can be a challenge when viewed only through code or…
Hans Rosling wrote a book on Factfulness

Statistics / book, facts, Hans Rosling, world

Hans Rosling was able to build excitement around data like no other. Truth…
Visualization color picker, based on perception research

Apps / color, perception

The colors you choose to visualize data can completely shift what you convey…
Strictly statistical approach

Statistics / humor, SMBC

This comic from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal speaks to me.

You can quantify…

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