Nathan Yau

The visualizations are used and read differently, which requires that you approach their design differently.

How many US cities can you name? Here’s a quick and fun game…

Philip Bump explains why the “impeach this” map is a bit dubious:
By…

A couple of weeks ago, The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts using…

This is perfect. Willikin Wolf made characters out of two dots moving along…

In 2008, the World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign that used pixelation to…

Thomas Lin Pedersen has been sharing his generative art pieces as of late:…

Every month I collect the latest visualization tools and resources on how to make the most of your data. Here’s the good stuff for September.

The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…

Continuing his analysis of street grid-iness in cities around the world, Geoff Boeing…

For UnHerd, Tom Chivers, talks about David Spiegelhalter’s new book and why every…

GPX Jewelry by Rachel Binx lets you turn your GPS traces into jewelry.…

The Generated Photos project is a work in progress to provide realistic AI-generated…

Tetris is a game with foundations in randomness. Pieces are distributed randomly to…

Reporting for The Washington Post, Drew Harwell describes the case of the fake…

Consider your audience. Yes. But at some point in the visualization creation process, you have to disregard all of the feature requests and design suggestions.

For The Upshot, Kevin Quealy used a heatmap to visualize fantasy football draft…

Bloomberg News mapped the land owned by the largest owners:
The 100 largest…

The New York Times mapped the slow, wide-reaching flood waters this year so…

The Washington Post visualized 13,000 school districts to show the change in diversity…