Nathan Yau

Shift Your Point of View to When America Was “Better”

Data Underload / baseline, demographics, economy

How good or bad something is depends on what you compare against.
Dear Data headed to MoMA’s permanent collection

Data Art / Giorgia Lupi, MoMA, Stefanie Posavec

What started as a personal project and then turned into a book, Dear…
What $100 buys in each state

Maps / income, New York Times

A hundred bucks in one state doesn’t always get you the same thing…
Dialect book of maps

Maps / book, dialect, language

In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people…
Floaty bubble charts with d3.js

Coding / bubbles, d3js, Jim Vallandingham

D3.js, or Data-Driven Documents, version 4.0 was released a few months ago, so…
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Transitioning Map, Part 3: Animate Change Over Time

Tutorials / interpolation, R

How to make a bunch of maps and string them together to show change.
Visual connections between art pieces

Data Art / art, Google, machine learning, vision

This is neat. A Google Arts & Culture Experiment, X Degrees of Separation…
Google A.I. Experiments

Statistics / artificial intelligence, Google

In an effort to get people more interested in and to learn about…
Glow map

Design / cartography, glowing, John Nelson

John Nelson has a knack for making maps that glow, where the base…
Showing uncertainty during the live election forecast

Statistical Visualization / election, New York Times, uncertainty

During the election, The New York Times showed a live gauge to show…
Generate color palettes automatically

Apps / color

Default color schemes are often horrible, but spending a lot of time putting…
Data Sketches, a monthly visualization matchup

Data Art / collaboration, contrast

Data Sketches, a collaboration between Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu, aims to visualize…
Resources to Find the Data You Need, 2016 Edition

Guides / datasets, resources

This is an update to the guide I wrote in 2009, which as it turns out, is now mostly outdated. So, 2016. Here we go.
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Transitioning Map, Part 2: Refining the Format and Layout

Tutorials / interpolation, R

How to make a more readable and more visually accurate map, before you dive into the big transitions.
Peaks and valleys of presidential support

Maps / election, Washington Post

This is some fine map work by Lazaro Gamio and Dan Keating for…
Randomness of scientific impact

Statistical Visualization / randomness, science

A group of researchers wondered if there was a trend or predictability for…
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Sketchbook

Here we go.…
Textured SVG patterns in JavaScript

Coding / fills, JavaScript, patterns

In case you didn’t get the memo, pattern fills are back and so…
Nuclear war is on the ballot

Infographics / election, nuclear

Neil Halloran, creator of the interactive World War II documentary focused on deaths,…
Newspaper endorsements since 1980

Data Sources / election, endorsement, newspaper

Noah Veltman put together a history of newspapers’ presidential endorsements since 1980 for…

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