Nathan Yau

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…
Why momentum works

Statistical Visualization / momentum

Gabriel Goh models momentum over at the new machine learning journal Distill. The…
Shift in world’s night lights

Maps / John Nelson, lights, night

NASA recently released composite images of the Earth at night based on 2016…
Senators and Reps whose voting doesn’t quite match the constituent’s

Infographics / voting, Washington Post

I know, it’s only April 2017, but some senators and representatives have some…
Finding the craft beer capital of America

Infographics / beer

You had me at craft beer. Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding looks for…
New images of Earth at night

Maps / NASA, night, space

NASA just released a composite map of the world at night using satellite…
Love in the age of data, without data

Self-surveillance / love, privacy

We live in a time when personal data leaves digital traces of what…
Climate Change Coloring Book

Infographics / book, Brian Foo, climate, environment

The Climate Change Coloring Book by Brian Foo makes data tactile and interactive.…

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