Nathan Yau

Data visualization for analysis and understanding complex problems

Visualization / analysis, Enrico Bertini, research

Enrico Bertini, a professor at New York University, delves into the less flashy…
Worries over the 2020 Census

Statistics / accuracy, census, New York Times

Michael Wines, reporting for The New York Times:
“The politicization of the census…
Download comprehensive police shootings data

Data Sources / police, shootings, Vice

Data for police shootings is usually the subset that only includes fatalities. Vice…
Simulation shows swirling of smoke, sea salt, and dust around the world

Maps / environment, NASA, simulation

NASA. Data. Good.
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see…
Where students learn the most

Statistical Visualization / education, Upshot

Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy, reporting for the Upshot, highlights research from Sean…
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How to Make a State Map Grid with Small Multiples in R

Tutorials / grid map, R

Combining small multiples with the grid layout can make for an intuitive geographic reference.
How artificial intelligence can augment our own

Statistics / Distill, font, machine learning

There’s another essay on Distill by Shan Carter and Michael Nielsen. They describe…
Serial-Killer detector

Data Sources / algorithm, murder, New Yorker

Alec Wilkinson, reporting for The New Yorker, profiled Thomas Hargrove, who is deep…
Bomb contaminants where you live

Maps / bomb, ProPublica

Lena Groeger, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten, reporting for ProPublica with a…
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2017 Chart Diary →

Design / link, New York Times, process

Adam Pearce, a New York Times graphics editor, provides the notes and thinking behind the charts he made during the year.
Microsoft Excel painter

Software / Excel, paintings, tools

Remember the artist Tatsuo Horiuchi who uses Microsoft Excel to paint scenery? Four…
Flawed hate crime data collection

Statistics / crime, missing data, ProPublica

Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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Compact Ways to Visualize Distributions in R

Tutorials / distributions, R

For when you want to show or compare several distributions but don’t have a lot of space.
High-detail landscape using lidar data

Maps / Lidar, surveying

Lidar, which is like radar but with lasers instead of radio waves, can…
Drawing with noise

Coding / GIF, noise, Processing

This looks like a fun Processing tutorial by Etienne Jacob. Use noise to…
800 pages of Tinder data

Data Sharing / privacy, Tinder

Judith Duportail, writing for the Guardian, requested her personal data from dating service…
Stopping a nuclear missile fired at the US

Infographics / missile, scrollytelling, Washington Post

I hate that this feels like something civilians should know. Bonnie Berkowitz and…
Tech generations, as seen through video source, music players, and internet access

Statistical Visualization / Internet, technology, telephone, Washington Post

In a fun piece by Reuben Fischer-Baum, reporting for The Washington Post:
In…
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How I Made That: Interactive Heatmap

How I Made That / canvas, d3js, heatmap

Add interaction so that you can show different segments of the data and allow comparisons.
Middle-class tax cuts and increases from Senate bill

Statistical Visualization / taxes, Upshot

A lot of tax debate centers around the “average” American family, with focus…

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