Nathan Yau

Giving Up Time as a Parent

Data Underload / parenting, time use

There is a fixed number of minutes during the day. Where do parents usually draw the time from?
Multiplayer stock market game with real money

Statistical Visualization / game, stocks, Twitch

Twitch launched Stock Stream, which is a multiplayer stock market game that uses…
Comparing Google Maps and Apple Maps Over a Year

Maps / Apple, cartography, Google

Google collects much of their own data to construct their maps, whereas Apple…
Obi-Wan saying “Hello there” 67 million times

Miscellaneous / multiples, Star Wars

This clip of Obi-Wan saying “Hello there” 67 million times amused me too…
Melting glaciers

Maps / environment, glaciers, New York Times

Glaciers at Glacier National Park in Montana are melting. Using data from the…
Past and future of data analysis

Statistics / data analysis, Roger Peng

Roger Peng, a biostatistics professor at John Hopkins University, talks about the past…
Searchable budget proposal and the 10-year change

Data Sources / budget, government, New York Times

The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…
Medieval fantasy city generator

Maps / procedural

Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…
All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors

Statistical Visualization / color, Mister Rogers

While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
Satellites from the ground

Maps / satellites

There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…
Chernoff emoji

Maps / Chernoff Faces, emoji

Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis.
This visualization…
A Day in the Life: Work and Home

Data Underload / time use

I simulated a day for employed Americans to see when and where they work.
Breathing Earth of vegetation

Maps / animation, environment, vegetation

Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js

Coding / d3js

Ian Johnson provides some good direction for those looking to get their feet…
Gerrymandering game shows you how it works

Infographics / game, gerrymandering, government

Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors…
Census Bureau budget cuts

News / Census Bureau

The unexpected resignation of Census director John H. Thompson was likely related to…
Census director resigns

News / Census Bureau

The U.S. Census director John H. Thompson resigned and will leave June 30.…
How the Average Working Adult Spends Days

Data Underload / time use

This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.
Life expectancy by state, against the US average

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, mortality, small multiples

FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
X-Ray of the oceans

Maps / environment, ocean, pollution

Using satellite data and spatial models, researchers estimate human influence in the ocean.…

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