Nathan Yau

Past and future of data analysis

Statistics / data analysis, Roger Peng

Roger Peng, a biostatistics professor at John Hopkins University, talks about the past…
Searchable budget proposal and the 10-year change

Data Sources / budget, government, New York Times

The administration released a budget proposal yesterday, which as you’d expect contains some…
Medieval fantasy city generator

Maps / procedural

Game developer Oleg Dolya made a medieval fantasy city generator. Select the size…
All of Mister Rogers’ cardigan colors

Statistical Visualization / color, Mister Rogers

While watching a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood marathon, Owen Phillips for The Awl wondered…
Satellites from the ground

Maps / satellites

There is a 16-by-16 mile grid of big X’s in the Sonoran Desert…
Chernoff emoji

Maps / Chernoff Faces, emoji

Lazaro Gamio for Axios used Chernoff Faces that look like emojis.
This visualization…
A Day in the Life: Work and Home

Data Underload / time use

I simulated a day for employed Americans to see when and where they work.
Breathing Earth of vegetation

Maps / animation, environment, vegetation

Using data from NOAA STAR, Nadieh Bremer creates a breathing Earth that shows…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js

Coding / d3js

Ian Johnson provides some good direction for those looking to get their feet…
Gerrymandering game shows you how it works

Infographics / game, gerrymandering, government

Gerrymandering is the practice of manipulating boundaries in such a way that favors…
Census Bureau budget cuts

News / Census Bureau

The unexpected resignation of Census director John H. Thompson was likely related to…
Census director resigns

News / Census Bureau

The U.S. Census director John H. Thompson resigned and will leave June 30.…
How the Average Working Adult Spends Days

Data Underload / time use

This is what you get when you add up all the days the average American adult spends sleeping, eating, commuting, and doing other activities.
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

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Filmmaker Kevin Smith talks about making things versus critiquing them.…
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.…

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