Nathan Yau

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.
Changing size analogies and the trends of everyday things

Statistics / language, n-gram, size

When you try to describe the size of something but don’t have an…
Endangered species that could fit in a train car

Infographics / animals, endangered, Guardian, scale

There are endangered species where the remaining few in the world could fit…
3-D view inside Typhoon Mangkhut

Maps / 3-d, New York Times, typhoon, weather

Typhoon Mangkhut went through the northern end of the Phillipines a few days…
My chat with Data Stories

Site News / Data Stories

I talked with Moritz and Enrico on Data Stories, my favorite visualization podcast.…
Realistic storm surge depicted in Weather Channel forecast

Infographics / flood, hurricane, weather

The Weather Channel is using a realistic 3-D depiction surrounding a reporter to…
Waffle House index as a storm indicator

Statistics / correlation, Waffle House, weather

Waffle House activated their storm center in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Their restaurants…
Turning water pollution into audiolized awareness

Data Art / audiolization, pollution, water

Brian House collected polluted water with acid mine drainage in the Tshimologong Precinct,…
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Google Dataset Search Impressions, the Challenges of Looking for Data, and Other Places to Find Data

The Process / Google, search

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

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