Nathan Yau

Serena Williams, greatest of all time

Infographics / Los Angeles Times, Serena Williams, sports, tennis

Serena Williams, who plays tonight in the U.S. Open semifinal, might be the…
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How to Make Beeswarm Plots in R to Show Distributions

Tutorials / distribution, R

Try the more element-based approach instead of your traditional histogram or boxplot.
Comma Chameleon, a stripped-down CSV editor

Software / csv, editor

CSV files are great, but every now and then you have to edit…
Radio station frequencies, by genre

Statistical Visualization / radio

In most areas in the United States, lower FM frequencies are reserved for…
More global warming, more flooding

Infographics / global warming, New York Times

Water levels are rising, and naturally, the coasts are feeling it. Jonathan Corum…
Oil fires in Iraq seen from above

Maps / Iraq, NASA, oil, satellite

Though far away, there’s still a lot you can see, as the NASA…
Dear Data, the book

Data Art / book, Giorgia Lupi, postcards, Stefanie Posavec

For a year, Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi drew data postcards and sent…
Invention

Chart Everything

R.I.P.…
What Alcohol People Around the World Drink

Data Underload / alcohol

Americans get most of their alcohol from beer, but it’s not like that everywhere.
Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly

Mistaken Data / algorithm, facebook

Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
Out of state, public education

Maps / education, New York Times

Nick Strayer for the New York Times shows the flow of college freshman…
D3 in Depth

Coding / d3js

D3 is the most commonly used JavaScript library for visualization on the web,…
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A Career Built on Side Projects →

Design / career, link

My whole career is a side project.
This is Parenthood

Chart Everything / parenthood

Raising kids is hard to explain. I’ll try anyways. With some charts.
Rhyming schemes in Hamilton the musical

Statistics / Hamilton, Wall Street Journal

Hamilton is unique in its use of complex rhyming lyrics. Joel Eastwood and…
Animal migrations in animated map

Maps / environment, migration

The Migrations in Motion map, by Dan Majka from the The Nature Conservancy,…
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Make a Moving Bubbles Chart to Show Clustering and Distributions

Tutorials / d3js, network diagram

Use a force-directed graph to form a collection of bubbles and move them around based on data.
Composite Olympic moments

Infographics / compositing, New York Times, Olympics

One more Olympics-related piece for the road. The New York Times used photo…
Colorgorical generates color schemes for you

Apps / color

Sometimes you need a color scheme quick, and ColorBrewer is typically the de…
The different trends in American crime

Statistics / crime, Marshall Project

Crime is up? Crime is down? It depends on who you ask and…

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