Nathan Yau

U.S. culture through TV show geography

Maps / facebook, television, Upshot

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
Where people use certain words

Maps / dialect, Quartz, Twitter

Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
How Bayesian inference works

Statistics / Bayes

You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…
Interpolate your data for animation in R

Coding / animation, package, R

The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…
Minimizing discrimination in machine learning

Statistics / discrimination, machine learning

From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
Map of New York City shadows

Maps / New York Times, shadows

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…
Christmas Movies as Charts

Chart Everything / Christmas, movies

‘Tis the season.
Following the carbon dioxide

Maps / carbon, environment, NASA

This animated visualization from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center shows a model of…
Listen to radio around the globe

Maps / globe, radio

Here’s a fun piece called Radio Garden. It’s exactly what the title says.…
Charting All the Beer Styles

Data Underload

The Beer Judge Certification Program lists 100 styles of beer. Here’s a chart for all of them.
Houston flooding on the rise

Maps / climate change, environment, flood, ProPublica

Climate change is doing some weird stuff. What were once rare weather events…
Electoral college and state population representation weights

Infographics / electoral, grid map, Washington Post

By design, the electoral college and population don’t quite match up state-by-state. This…
Random states of America show changing election outcomes

Maps / borders, election

Geography and state borders play a big part in how elections play out…
Bed Sizes Around the World

Data Underload / bed

A king bed isn’t the same size everywhere. Sometimes, a king is a queen.
Handwriting with a neural network

Statistics / Google, handwriting, neural network

Continuing the neural network explorations, Shan Carter and team of Google Brain and…
New region boundaries based on commutes

Maps / commute

Geographers Alasdair Rae and Garrett Nelson used commuting data from the American Community…
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…

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