Nathan Yau

Math to fix gerrymandering, explained in comic

Infographics / comic, gerrymandering

Gerrymandering doesn’t sound like an especially sexy topic, but it’s an important one…
Visualizing nonlinear stories

Statistical Visualization / movies, narrative, story, timeline

Many stories don’t follow a linear format. There are flashbacks, or multiple timelines…
Days Without a Mass Shooting

Data Underload / shootings

Unfortunately, while of varying magnitude, mass shootings are somewhat regular in the United States.
Logos drawn from memory

Infographics / branding, logo

Signs asked 150 people to draw famous logos — Apple, Starbucks, Burger King,…
Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs

Statistics / Google, machine learning

The Teachable Machine from Støj, Use All Five, and Google is a fun…
LaVar Ball trolling to the top, through a tweet count lens

Infographics / basketball, LaVar Ball, Twitter

I didn’t know who LaVar Ball was, and suddenly, it was non-stop sports…
Triangulate a picture

Statistical Visualization / Delaunay, images

Triangulate, a fun tool made by Michael Freeman, lets you upload a picture…
How fake data goes viral

Statistical Visualization / fake data

BuzzFeed describes how an article on Daily Mail — that falsely reported claims…
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How I Made That: Interactive Beeswarm Chart to Compare Distributions

How I Made That / d3js, distribution

The histogram is my favorite chart type, but it’s unintuitive for many. So I’ve been using the less accurate but less abstract beeswarm.
Nine rounds a second sonified

Statistical Visualization / New York Times, shootings, sonification

The New York Times used sonification along with a dot plot to demonstrate…
Mass exodus at human scale

Infographics / human, scale

Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
Grid map variations

Maps / grid map

Grid maps are a useful way to show state-level data, as they give…
Falling is Learning

Guides / mistakes

I’ve been teaching my three-year-old son how to ride his bike on two…
Hand-drawn short trip

Miscellaneous / game, illustration

Have you seen this yet? Illustrator Alexander Perrin experimented with bringing a hand-drawn…
Given your income, most beneficial tax breaks

Statistical Visualization / taxes, Washington Post

With the release of the Republican proposed tax plan, Reuben Fischer-Baum and Kevin…
LEGO world map

Maps / LEGO

Check out this five-foot long LEGO world map.
[W]e wanted to have a…
Link

R or Python? →

Coding / link, Python, R

Big community and lots of tools for both.
Who Earns More Income in American Households?

Data Underload / gender, income, work

Compared to 1970, a shift towards women making the higher income.
Time map shows locations based on how long it takes to get there

Maps / mapbox

With the premise that we often search for locations based on how long…
Thermal structure of Hurricane Maria

Maps / hurricane, NASA, weather

Hurricane Maria touched down in Puerto Rico. This visualization by Joshua Stevens at…

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