Nathan Yau

I’m just gonna put this xkcd comic right here.…

You’ve seen the maps of population density. You’ve seen the jokes. But you…

Mark Hansen for The Upshot describes the search for balance between individual privacy…

A couple of famous directors were defending animated films as a medium rather than a genre of film meant for kids. I got to thinking about the parallels to visualization.

This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…

Multiple people can look at the same dataset and come out the other…

Shannon Mattern for The Atlantic on how blockchain might be useful in mapping…

RJ Andrews has a visualization design book coming out in January called Info…

Michael Correll on the use of “visualization literacy” in research:
If people (and,…

Jonathan Schwabish gave his fourth-grade son’s class a lesson on data visualization. He…

Throughout the month I collect new tools for data and visualization and additional resources on designing data graphics. Here’s the new stuff for November.

Brian Brettschneider made a joke map randomly designating the favorite pies of certain…

The maps that we imagine as we think about locations around the world…

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…

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…