Nathan Yau

Switching Jobs

Data Underload / work

When people move to different jobs, here’s where they go.
Every tax cut and increase in House Republicans’ bill

Infographics / New York Times, scrollytelling, taxes

The House Republicans will vote on a tax bill soon that adds about…
How generative music works

Data Art / music

Generative music comes from the design of a system that produces notes that…
3-D tube chart of global CO2 concentration and temperature

Statistical Visualization / animation, climate change, temperature

Because you can never have enough time series charts that show increases of…
Looking for patterns and structures from the sky

Data Art / photography, physical

Photographer Bernhard Lang takes pictures in small planes and helicopters, pointing his camera…
A daily high-resolution image of Earth

Maps / satellite, space

Planet monitors Earth with hundreds of satellites, and after six years, they’ve built…
The words used by men and women to write about love

Statistical Visualization / love, Upshot, words

Josh Katz, Claire Cain Miller, and Kathleen A. Flynn for The Upshot plotted…
Importance of form and survey design to gain an accurate picture

Design / forms, Lena Groeger

Lena Groeger, writing for Source, shifts attention upstream from analysis to the design…
Changing internet markets for sex work

Statistics / Internet, sex

The internet changed how sex workers and clients find each other and how…
Google maps street-level air quality using Street View cars with sensors

Maps / air quality, environment, Google

Google equipped their Street View cars with air quality sensors and sent them…
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How to Make (and Animate) a Circular Time Series Plot in R

Tutorials / R, time series

Also known as a polar plot, it is usually not the better option over a standard line chart, but in select cases the method can be useful to show cyclical patterns.
Cities projected to be under water by 2100

Maps / climate change, flood, Guardian

Using Climate Central sea-level rise estimates, The Guardian plots and maps the potential…
Carbon emissions goals vs. current paths

Statistical Visualization / climate change, environment, New York Times

Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich reporting for The New York Times:
Under the…
PowerPoint history lesson

Software / history, Powerpoint

David C. Brock writing for IEEE Spectrum delves into the origins of PowerPoint.…
Visualization song release

Data Art / d3js, music

Ukranian band Obiymy Doschu released a new song Razom. “It’s a uplifting and…
Choosing color palettes for choropleth maps

Design / choropleth, color, mapping

Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…
Percentage of People Who Married, Given Your Age

Data Underload / marriage

Or, given your age, the percentage of fish left in the sea. Here’s a chart.
AI-generated celebrity faces look real

Statistics / AI, faces

Researchers from NVIDIA published work with artificial intelligence algorithms, or more specifically, generative…
Visual explainer for hierarchical modeling

Statistical Visualization / model, scrollytelling, teaching

Hierarchical models, or multilevel models, are used to represent data that might vary…
Charts show time between assaults and public allegations

Statistical Visualization / assault, Axios, Harvey Weinstein

As the list of sexual assault allegations grows for Harvey Weinstein (and many…

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