Nathan Yau

LeBron James legacy versus championship-winning

Statistics / basketball, FiveThirtyEight, LeBron James, prediction

LeBron James decides where he takes his talents this summer, and the sports…
Why People Make Bad Charts (and What to Do When it Happens)

Guides / experiment, learning, mistakes

It’s important to consider the reasons so that we don’t overreact. Otherwise, we’re just berating, pointing, and laughing all of the time, and that’s not good for anyone.
$16.1m in political and taxpayer spending at Trump properties

Infographics / Fathom, government, m, ProPublica, spending

ProPublica compiled spending data from a wide range of sources to calculate the…
Kepler.gl, an open source tool for mapping large-scale spatial data

Software / mapbox, spatial, Uber

Kepler.gl, a collaboration between Uber and Mapbox, allows for easier mapping of large-scale…
Check if your school district or college was investigated for civil rights violations

Data Sources / civil rights, education, ProPublica

The U.S. Department of Education constantly investigates school districts and colleges for civil…
Same money, different counting strategies

Miscellaneous / metaphor, money

Condé Nast Traveler got 70 people from 70 different countries to count money…
What Makes People the Most Happy

Data Underload / happiness, text

It’s in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.
History of the word ‘data’

Statistics / data, history, words

Sandra Rendgen describes the history of “data” the word and where it stands…
Finding the best Mario Kart character, statistically speaking

Statistics / Mario Kart, video games

Henry Hinnefeld answers the age-old debate of which Mario Kart character is best,…
Visual introduction to bias in machine learning

Statistical Visualization / machine learning, scrollytelling

A few years ago, Stephanie Yee and Tony Chu explained the introductory facets…
Blockchain visually explained

Infographics / blockchain, Reuters

I feel like I was supposed to know what blockchain is a while…
Little League baseball analytics that would change the game forever

Infographics / baseball, humor

Oh. So that’s why I was always placed in right field that one…
Vector paths of meaning between words and phrases

Statistics / Path, text, vector

Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, explored the space…
Math gender gap bigger in richer school districts

Statistical Visualization / gender, math, school, Upshot

This is quite the scatterplot from Claire Cain Miller and Kevin Quealy for…
Ancient Earth globe shows where you were located 750 million years ago

Maps / Earth, tectonic plates

In a spin on the view of ancient Earth and the shift of…
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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.

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