Nathan Yau

Olympian mechanics

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics

Well this is awesome. The New York Times highlighted four olympians with a…
People font

Design / font, icons, people

You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…
How Different Income Groups Spend Money

Data Underload / spending

After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?
Olympians in your living room through augmented reality

Infographics / augmented reality, New York Times, Olympics

Well this is awesome. The Winter Olympics start this Friday, and The New…
Roger Federer career in rankings and wins

Statistical Visualization / Roger Federer, sports, tennis

Professional tennis player Roger Federer won his 20th Grand Slam title recently. He’s…
Scissors congruence

Infographics / geometry, theorem

The Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem says that if you have two polygons of equal area,…
Statistics crash course

Statistics / learning, video

Odds are if you’re reading this, you know what statistics is already, but…
Redistricting the congressional map with different goals

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, gerrymandering, government

FiveThirtyEight asks, “There’s a lot of complaining about gerrymandering, but what should districts…
Bruises

Data Art / Giorgia Lupi, health, human, Kaki King

Musician Kaki King’s daughter suffers from a condition (Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) where her…
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How I Made That: Animated Square Pie Chart

How I Made That / d3js

Also known as waffle charts. Using animated transitions between values, you can allow for comparisons between categories.
Link

Over Heard: A design exploration of the On Being archive →

Design / Ben Fry, link, process

The process of building a client project with varied expectations along the way.
Secret army bases seen in public fitness tracking map

Data Sharing / military, privacy, Strava

Last year, fitness tracking app Strava released a high detail map of public…
Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data

Guides / missing data

We love complete and nicely formatted data. That’s not what we get a lot of the time.
Finding fake followers

Statistical Visualization / bot, fake, Twitter

This fake follower piece by Nicholas Confessore, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Richard Harris, and…
Hand-drawn how-to instructions using zero words

Infographics / illustration, postcards

Inspired by Dear Data, the data drawing pen pal project, designers Josefina Bravo,…
Release strategies for Oscar-nominated films

Statistical Visualization / movies, Oscars

Evie Liu and William Davis, reporting MarketWatch, looked at release strategies of Oscar…
Is there something wrong with democracy?

Infographics / democracy, New York Times

Max Fisher and Amanda Taub, for The New York Times, answer the question…
World population estimator and gridded data from NASA

Data Sources / NASA, population

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
The Demographics of Others

Data Underload / demographics

I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others these days. This is a glimpse of how different groups live.
Surprise, the world was warmer again in 2017

Statistical Visualization / environment, global warming, New York Times

According to NASA estimates, 2017 was the second warmest year on record since…

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