Nathan Yau

All the National Food Days

Data Underload / arbitrary, food

Keep track of the 214 days out of the year that are a national food or drink days.
Global terrain maps from Stamen

Maps / Stamen, terrain

Missed this one from last month. Stamen announced the release of a whole…
Heptathlon rankings with parallel coordinates

Infographics / Guardian, Olympics, parallel coordinates

The Guardian covered the rankings for the women’s heptathlon, specifically how Nafissatou Thiam…
Long-exposure bird flights

Data Art / long-exposure, nature, photography

Using a long-exposure photography technique, Xavi Bou captured bird flight patterns in his…
Every fastest man on one track

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics, Usain Bolt

The New York Times has been pulling from the vault for this year’s…
Open data board game

Data Sharing / game, open data

Datopolis is a board game by Ellen Broad and Jeni Tennison from the…
Why all the swimming ties in the Olympics

Statistics / Olympics, precision

As the Olympics are all about reaching peak physical potential, it shouldn’t surprise…
Generate your own fantasy map

Maps / fantasy

Martin O’Leary made a Twitter bot, Uncharted Atlas, that posts automatically generated fantasy…
DrawMyData lets you plot points manually and then download the data

Statistics / teaching

When you have graphs to draw or statistical concepts to teach, you need…
Michael Phelps race times since his first Olympics

Visualization / Michael Phelps, Olympics

That Michael Phelps. He is a crazy man, in the best possible way.…
Trump tweets from Android are angrier than from iPhone

Statistics / election, Twitter

Sometimes I check Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, as many find themselves doing and…
Streamgraph of Olympic medal wins

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics, streamgraph

Gregor Aisch and Larry Buchanan for the New York Times visualized Olympic medal…
Household Types, Then and Now

Data Underload / households

Here’s how common each household type is and was — and how the makeup compares to a few decades ago.
Katie Ledecky domination charted

Infographics / Guardian, Katie Ledecky, Olympics

One of the best parts of the Olympics is watching an athlete from…
What makes the Olympic athletes great

Infographics / New York Times, Olympics

Rather than a focus on the events and their details, the New York…
Games to test your skillz against Olympians, from your computer

Infographics / games, Olympics, Wall Street Journal

The last couple of Olympics, news graphics desks went with gloriously detailed explainers…
Building a generator for stuff

Statistics / generator

There comes a time in every data scientist’s life when an idea for…
Practical tips for scraping data

Coding / NPR, scraping

It’s an unpleasant feeling when you have an idea for a project and…
Star Trek character network

Network Visualization / fiction, Star Trek

Star Trek fans rejoice. Mollie Pettit from Datascope Analytics visualized the interactions between…
An interactive look at handwriting recognition from 1960s

Infographics / handwriting

In the 1960s, the RAND corporation developed a handwriting recognition system using, well,…

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