Nathan Yau

Is the hot hand in basketball real?

Statistics / basketball, hot hand, Numberphile

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With Numberphile, Lisa Goldberg discusses her research with Alon Daks…
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

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Abstract: The Art of Design kept popping up on my…
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…
Maps show spring arriving earlier

Maps / first leaf, global warming, NASA

From Joshua Stevens at the NASA Earth Observatory:
But over the longer term,…
The Moon in 4k resolution

Maps / high resolution, moon, NASA, space

Based on data gathered by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA pieced together this…
Datasets for teaching data science

Data Sources / R, teaching

Rafael Irizarry introduces the dslabs package for real-life datasets to teach data science:…
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How to Make Chord Diagrams in R

Tutorials / R

Show connections in the circular layout for a more compact presentation.
Traveling salesman image drawing

Statistics / R, traveling salesman

This is a fun drawing experiment in R by Antonio Sánchez Chinchón. A…
Day of the year companies stop paying women

Infographics / calendar, Guardian, pay gap

One way to think about gender pay gap is to imagine women receive…

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