Nathan Yau

Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”

Statistical Visualization / race, Upshot

In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…
Photorealistic balls of precious metals placed outside their mines

Data Art / mining

Artist Dillon Marsh uses CGI balls of metal placed outside of mines to…
Useless Data Comparisons

Guides / baseline, comparison

Apples and oranges situations where the comparisons make no sense.
How far you can drive out of the city in one hour

Maps / commute, Washington Post

Using anonymized cell phone data from Here Technologies, Sahil Chinoy for The Washington…
Game of Thrones character chart, you decide

Statistical Visualization / Game of Thrones, Upshot

I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones show, but I suspect this will…
Bread bag alignment chart

Infographics / alignment chart, bread, humor

From @aurelianrabbit, the bread bag alignment chart. Lawful neutral, right here.…
Where North Korea can reach with its missiles

Maps / missile, New York Times, North Korea

Troy Griggs and Karen Yourish for The New York Times mapped the estimated…
Machine learning to find spy planes

Statistics / BuzzFeed, flights, machine learning

Last year, BuzzFeed News went looking for surveillance flight paths from the FBI…
How Airbnb Visitors Rate Location in Major US Cities

Data Underload / Airbnb

This is how Airbnb visitors judge location, which provides a view into where city centers begin and end.
Perception of neighborhoods through Airbnb ratings

Maps / Airbnb

Beñat Arregi made a series of Airbnb maps with a simple premise. If…
Calculating the opposite of your job

Statistics / Upshot, work

Here’s a fun calculation from The Upshot.
The Labor Department keeps detailed and…
14 months of sleep and breast feeding

Self-surveillance / parenting

If you’re a parent, you’ll relate to this right away. The wife of…
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How to Make a State Grid Map in R

Tutorials / R

Something of a cross between a reference table and a map, the state grid provides equal space to each state and a semblance of the country to quickly pick out individual states.
Karate-inspired projection mapping

Data Art / projection mapping

I have no idea how projection mapping works, so it kind of feels…
Music preference geography

Maps / music, Upshot, YouTube

Travel to different parts of the country, and you hear different types of…
Interactive shows map projections with a face

Maps / projections

We’ve seen faces as map projections before, but this is 63 projections on…
Boeing draws a plane in the sky with flight path

Maps / Boeing, flight

In a test flight, Boeing took the thing where you draw using your…
Link

d3-annotation 2.0 →

Coding / annotation, d3js, link

Next iteration of library for annotation. Made me delve into d3.js v4.
Voronoi diagram of people in the park

Statistical Visualization / park, voronoi

From Rod Bogart, a Voronoi diagram of people sitting in Bryant Park. It’s…
Working on Tips, by State

Data Underload / salary, tipping

What percentage of a waiter and waitress’s income comes from tips and what comes from salary? The calculation isn’t straightforward but we can try.

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