Sleep. Work. Play. The times and everything in between change depending on who you talk to.
Nathan Yau
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American Daily Routine
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Mapping happiness
Gallup surveyed Americans about their well-being across various factors. National Geographic gets into…
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Statistical diversity in US newsrooms
If a news organization wants to talk about the world in a fair…
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Gyroscope to automatically track your health data
I’m surprised I’m just now hearing about Gyroscope. It’s an app that automatically…
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Map of Santa Rosa fires
Using both satellite images and ground surveys, The New York Times maps the…
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Dangers of CSV injection
George Mauer highlights how a hacker might access other people’s data by putting…
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US electricity sources map
This interactive map from CarbonBrief shows how America generates electricity. Each circle represents…
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Darkness mapped in Puerto Rico
Three weeks in, much of Puerto Rico is still without power. Denise Lu…
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Frequency trails chart explainer
Frequency trails, or currently better known as joyplots, is a visualization method to…
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Math to fix gerrymandering, explained in comic
Gerrymandering doesn’t sound like an especially sexy topic, but it’s an important one…
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Visualizing nonlinear stories
Many stories don’t follow a linear format. There are flashbacks, or multiple timelines…
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Days Without a Mass Shooting
Unfortunately, while of varying magnitude, mass shootings are somewhat regular in the United States.
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Logos drawn from memory
Signs asked 150 people to draw famous logos — Apple, Starbucks, Burger King,…
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Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs
The Teachable Machine from Støj, Use All Five, and Google is a fun…
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LaVar Ball trolling to the top, through a tweet count lens
I didn’t know who LaVar Ball was, and suddenly, it was non-stop sports…
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Triangulate a picture
Triangulate, a fun tool made by Michael Freeman, lets you upload a picture…
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How fake data goes viral
BuzzFeed describes how an article on Daily Mail — that falsely reported claims…
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How I Made That: Interactive Beeswarm Chart to Compare Distributions
The histogram is my favorite chart type, but it’s unintuitive for many. So I’ve been using the less accurate but less abstract beeswarm.
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Nine rounds a second sonified
The New York Times used sonification along with a dot plot to demonstrate…
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Mass exodus at human scale
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…