Nathan Yau

Fast Food Menu of Calories

Data Underload / calories, fast food

How does the distribution of calories vary by fast food restaurant? Here’s a chart that shows all the menu items for ten of the biggest national fast food chains.
An average life as interpretive dance

Data Art / average, BuzzFeed, dance

BuzzFeed used interpretive dance to describe the average age of the milestones in…
Marital Status by Age

Data Underload / marriage

Separately, we looked at marrying age, divorce rates, and those who never married. Now let’s look at marital status all together, with the addition of the widowed status.
Physical demo of how all maps are wrong

Maps / projections, Vox

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We’ve seen many one-off projects that show the distortions you get…
Most Popular Fields of Study, Since 1970

Data Underload / education

Based on bachelor’s degrees conferred, here are the fields that were and are currently popular.
How People Like You Spend Their Time

Data Underload / time use

Looking at American time use for various combinations of sex, age, and employment status, on weekdays and weekends.
Detailed time-lapse of everywhere on Earth

Maps / Google, satellite, time-lapse

A few years back, Google released a time-lapse feature in Google Earth that…
Food patterns

Infographics / food, Google, Moritz Stefaner

Food trends come and go. Some stay longer than expected, and others come…
American infrastructure mapped

Maps / infrastructure, Washington Post

I can always find time to enjoy me some minimal maps. Tim Meko…
Typeface interweaves words and graphs

Statistical Visualization / typography

Datalegreya is a new typeface by Fig that lets you intertwine a graph…
Actual deportation numbers

Infographics / deportation, New York Times

There was a lot of talk about deporting millions of illegal immigrants immediately,…
in/ex troversion

Infographics / introvert

Here’s a short illustrated animation on introverts and extroverts by Julia Rodrigues.
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Increasing diversity

Maps / diversity, Washington Post

Dan Keating and Laris Karklis for The Washington Post map the change in…
Visual collection of bird sounds

Data Art / birds, Google, machine learning, nature

Different species of birds make different sounds. However, the sounds are so quick…
History of Earth in the context of a football field

Infographics / big numbers, football

In the latest addition to the put-big-numbers-in-context genre, here’s the history timeline of…
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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