Nathan Yau

With data visualization, you start with the data and let it guide geometry,…

ProPublica runs a small annual workshop to teach journalists a bit about data…

Being good with data, sure. Then there are other things.

I bet you woke up this morning thinking, “I haven’t seen a good…

Add another chart to the genre of heart rate during a significant event.…

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Don Ingber and Charles Reilly of the Wyss Institute used…

These are the quick and simple tools I use to pick colors to represent data.

A straightforward tutorial on using squares instead of geographic boundaries.

Picking colors is one my favorite things to do with visualization when I’m…

Cartographer Geraldine Sarmiento from Mapzen explores the drawing forms in cartography, such as…

Gallup surveyed Americans about their well-being across various factors. National Geographic gets into…

If a news organization wants to talk about the world in a fair…

I’m surprised I’m just now hearing about Gyroscope. It’s an app that automatically…

Using both satellite images and ground surveys, The New York Times maps the…

George Mauer highlights how a hacker might access other people’s data by putting…

This interactive map from CarbonBrief shows how America generates electricity. Each circle represents…

Three weeks in, much of Puerto Rico is still without power. Denise Lu…

Frequency trails, or currently better known as joyplots, is a visualization method to…