Nathan Yau

Hey, no one told me that baby name analysis was back in fashion.…

xkcd tells it like it is.…

Break the visualization into its basic pieces to make it easier to make, edit, and reuse.

We talk about geographic bubbles a lot these days. Some areas are isolated,…

Hurricane Florence brought a lot of rain, which in turn made river levels…

When you try to describe the size of something but don’t have an…

There are endangered species where the remaining few in the world could fit…

Typhoon Mangkhut went through the northern end of the Phillipines a few days…

I talked with Moritz and Enrico on Data Stories, my favorite visualization podcast.…

The Weather Channel is using a realistic 3-D depiction surrounding a reporter to…

Waffle House activated their storm center in preparation for Hurricane Florence. Their restaurants…

Brian House collected polluted water with acid mine drainage in the Tshimologong Precinct,…

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

Hurricane Florence is forecast to touch down Thursday night or Friday, and what’s…

Wikipedia is human-edited, so naturally there are biases towards certain groups of people.…

I’m always down for faux vintage, online recreations of actual vintage visualization-related things.…

You’ve probably seen the maps of Earth at night. It gives you a…

Graham Douglas, a data journalist at The Economist, looks back on the days…

In a collaboration with Siena College, The Upshot is showing live polling results.…