Nathan Yau

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.…
Criticism vs. Creation

Design / criticism

Filmmaker Kevin Smith talks about making things versus critiquing them. He’s talking about…
Most popular colors used by most popular sites

Statistical Visualization / color

Paul Hebert was curious about the colors used on the web’s larger sites,…
Shifting Incomes for Young People

Data Underload / baby boomer, income, millennial

Compare incomes for young people from the Millennial generation and the baby boomer generation.
Same summary statistics, completely different plots

Statistics / mean, median, summary

Summary statistics such as mean, median, and mode can only tell you so…
Sandwich alignment chart

Infographics / humor, sandwich

By @matttomic, this chart speaks to me.…
xkcd: Algorithms are hard

Statistics / algorithm, xkcd

Yeah, but what if you combine and overlay all these datasets? [xkcd]…
YouTube plays for ‘It’s Gonna Be May’

Statistical Visualization / May, NSYNC

It’s that time of year again. Turn up the volume and blast It’s…
Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured

Infographics / mortality, simulation

Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…
Data exploration banned

Design / exploration, John Tukey, teaching

Statistician John Tukey, who coined Exploratory Data Analysis, talked a lot about using…
Fatal Traffic, When and Where

Data Underload / traffic

These are the traffic crashes that resulted in deaths in 2015, categorized by month, time of day, and factors involved.
Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014

Maps / FiveThirtyEight, mortality

Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
Income Taxes You Would Pay in Each State

Data Underload / taxes

Some states have high rates. Some have low. But whether a state is lower or higher for you depends on more than just the high brackets.
How disinformation spreads in a network

Network Visualization / disinformation, simulation

Disinformation is kind of a problem these days, yeah? Fatih Erikli uses a…
NFL draft performance vs. expectations

Statistical Visualization / draft, football, Washington Post

Reuben Fischer-Baum for The Washington Post looks at professional football expectations given their…
Stephen Curry for MVP, because he makes his teammates better the most

Statistical Visualization / FiveThirtyEight, sports, Stephen Curry

The choice for Most Valuable Player in the NBA is only minimally about…
Solar System in a bottle

Data Art / scale, space

From Little Planet Factory, a Solar System in a bottle made to scale:…
Data distributed as clipart

Mistaken Data / clipart, Excel, government

Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…
California looks green again

Maps / drought, Quartz, satellite

In case you didn’t hear, California had a bit of a drought problem…

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