Nathan Yau

Data Comics

Infographics / comics

Comics are a way to tell stories and for a while now, people…
Color profiles of every Game of Thrones episode

Infographics / color, Game of Thrones, Vox

As the final episode of Game of Thrones nears, Kavya Sukumar for Vox…
Flights passing through the shadow of the sun

Maps / eclipse, Washington Post

Here’s a neat one by John Muyskens for The Washington Post. Using data…
Q&A with This is Statistics

Statistics

I did a quick Q&A with This is Statistics recently. It’s an ongoing…
Son’s First Bar Graph Lesson

Personal / parenthood

I gave my son his first bar graph lesson today. Let’s just appreciate…
He vs. She in film screenplay direction

Statistical Visualization / gender, tropes

In screenplays, there are directions that tell actors and actresses what to do…
C’est la vis, teaching kids how to visualize data

Statistical Visualization / app, Data Stories, learning

By adulthood, it’s expected that we can read charts to some degree. You’re…
Sunsquatch, the only eclipse map you need

Maps / eclipse, Joshua Stevens, sasquatch

It’s solar eclipse time. There have been a lot of maps leading up…
Catalog of visualization types to find the one that fits your dataset

Statistical Visualization / methods, tool

There are a lot of visualization methods to choose from, and it can…
Killings of blacks by whites ruled “justified”

Statistical Visualization / race, Upshot

In a collaboration between The Marshall Project and The Upshot, Daniel Lathrop and…
Photorealistic balls of precious metals placed outside their mines

Data Art / mining

Artist Dillon Marsh uses CGI balls of metal placed outside of mines to…
Useless Data Comparisons

Guides / baseline, comparison

Apples and oranges situations where the comparisons make no sense.
How far you can drive out of the city in one hour

Maps / commute, Washington Post

Using anonymized cell phone data from Here Technologies, Sahil Chinoy for The Washington…
Game of Thrones character chart, you decide

Statistical Visualization / Game of Thrones, Upshot

I’ve never seen this Game of Thrones show, but I suspect this will…
Bread bag alignment chart

Infographics / alignment chart, bread, humor

From @aurelianrabbit, the bread bag alignment chart. Lawful neutral, right here.…
Where North Korea can reach with its missiles

Maps / missile, New York Times, North Korea

Troy Griggs and Karen Yourish for The New York Times mapped the estimated…
Machine learning to find spy planes

Statistics / BuzzFeed, flights, machine learning

Last year, BuzzFeed News went looking for surveillance flight paths from the FBI…
How Airbnb Visitors Rate Location in Major US Cities

Data Underload / Airbnb

This is how Airbnb visitors judge location, which provides a view into where city centers begin and end.
Perception of neighborhoods through Airbnb ratings

Maps / Airbnb

Beñat Arregi made a series of Airbnb maps with a simple premise. If…
Calculating the opposite of your job

Statistics / Upshot, work

Here’s a fun calculation from The Upshot.
The Labor Department keeps detailed and…

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