Nathan Yau

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How I Made That: National Dot Density Map

How I Made That / R

Mapping one dot per person, it’s all about putting the pieces together.
Convert an image to LEGO brick shopping list in R

Data Art / image, LEGO, R

Every day you wish you could convert a picture of your family or…
History of the health meter in video games

Infographics / health, video games

The health meter in video games wasn’t always so commonplace. It took time,…
Unsolved killings mapped

Maps / arrests, homicide, law, Washington Post

Thousands of homicides. Some cases result in an arrest. Many end up unsolved.…
Shifted Social Media Usage, Among Teens

Data Underload / social media, teen

Facebook took the biggest hit in the past three years. Snapchat and Instagram got more likes.
Remote Workers vs. Non-Remote Workers

Data Underload / home, remote, time use, work

How the schedules between remote and non-remote workers differ during workdays.
xkcd: LeBron James and Stephen Curry pseudo-greatness

Miscellaneous / basketball, humor, LeBron James, Stephen Curry

xkcd. Sometimes sports statistics are far-fetched.…
All the volcano eruptions

Infographics / Axios, Lazaro Gamio, volcano

Slowly becoming the person who charts the past century of natural disaster events,…
Original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood

Maps / fiction, Winnie-the-Pooh

The ink-drawn map of Hundred Acre Wood by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator E. H. Shepard…
Imagining gigantic places with satellite imagery

Data Art / photoshop, satellite imagery

Artist Marcus Lyon imagines worlds where there are so many people that the…
Vintage chart shows the evolution in design of everyday objects

Infographics / everyday, evolution, vintage

By Raymond Loewy, this chart from 1934 shows the shifts in design of…
Counting the times Kevin Durant’s shoe came off during games

Statistics / basketball, FiveThirtyEight, shoes

This is what happens when there is a lull during the basketball playoff…
A guide for applying to data science jobs

Statistics / data science, job

Emily Robinson gives advice on applying for a data science job (that you…
Increasing similarity of Billboard songs

Statistics / Billboard, music, Pudding, songs

Popular songs on the Billboard charts always tended to sound similar, but these…
Fast and slow visualization

Design / efficiency, Elijah Meeks, insight

Visualization is often described in the context of speed and efficiency. Get the…
When surveillance turns into stalking

Data Sharing / ethics, privacy, surveillance

Many surveillance apps cater to parents who want to keep tabs on their…
Amazon Rekognition for government surveillance

Statistics / Amazon, government, surveillance

Amazon’s Rekognition is a video analysis system that promises to identify individuals in…
Basketball Stat Cherry Picking

Data Underload / basketball, cherrypicking

Wow your friends during the game with random win percentages, based on various player stats.
Data scientists as the new Mad Men

Statistics

Ken Auletta for The New Yorker looks at “math men” replacing the Mad…
Nigel Holmes new illustrated book on Crazy Competitions

Infographics / book, illustration, Nigel Holmes

Nigel Holmes, the graphic designer known for his playful illustrated graphics, has a…

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