Nathan Yau

Email Deletion Flowchart

Sketchbook / email

We all get a lot of emails, and there’s a large subset of…
A thousand ways to draw a thing

Data Art / Doodle, Google

Google released the Quick, Draw! dataset, so the closer looks at the collection…
A guide for using open data to combat corruption

Statistics / corruption, truth

Open Up: A Guide to Using Open Data to Combat Corruption is free…
Data Everywhere, Statisticians Anywhere

Statistics / commencement

I had the honor to deliver the commencement speech at the UCLA Statistics…
Circle drawing as an indicator for culture

Statistics / circles, culture, Google, Quartz

Thu-Huong Ha and Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz looked at the doodling dataset from…
Normal coffee

Statistics / humor

This barista deserves a tip.
Looking for cultural expression in 50 million doodles

Data Art / culture, drawing

Using Google’s Quick Draw dataset, a collection of 50 million drawings across 345…
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How to Make a Multi-line Step Chart in R

Tutorials / R, step chart

For the times your data represents immediate changes in value.
Mappings for Choose Your Own Adventure books

Network Visualization / Choose Your Own Adventure

Every now and then there’s a visual exploration of the Choose Your Own…
Moving ice

Maps / environment, glaciers, New York Times

Ice in Antartica is in constant (very slow) motion, and as ocean waters…
The Warriors’ Championship Path

Data Underload / basketball, sports, Warriors

As expected, this time, the Golden State Warriors won the championship last night.…
Gun emoji usage analysis

Statistics / emoji, guns

Jane Solomon collected tweets that used the gun emoji, and looked at what…
Politics of religious leaders

Statistical Visualization / politics, religion

Kevin Quealy for The Upshot looks at political party registration of religious leaders,…
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Symbols-based Unit Charts to Show Counts in R

Tutorials / R, symbols

Add visual weight by using individual items to show counts.
Geocities map, a snapshot of an old web

Visualization / Geocities

Geocities was a place on the web you could create your own space…
Pollution popsicles

Data Art / pollution, popsicles

Students at the National Taiwan University of Arts made popsicles using sewage runoff…
R programming with Minecraft

Coding / Minecraft, R

The new R package miner is an interface to Minecraft via some simple…
How Histograms Work

Guides / distributions, histogram

The histogram is one of my favorite basic chart types, because it lets…
Baseball hitting angles on the rise

Infographics / baseball, Washington Post

After the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs, home runs in professional baseball dipped the…
Chances it’s a Friend’s Birthday Every Single Day of the Year

Data Underload / birthday, probability

If it seems like every day you log in to Facebook, it’s someone’s birthday, you’re probably not that far off.

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