Nathan Yau

Plug in any dataset into a magic box and it spits out a…

Dual axes, where there are two value scales in a single chart, are…

Lena Groeger for ProPublica describes when the designer shows up in the design,…

Mapping at the precinct level of detail is tough because there isn’t a…

Phew. Close call.
New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted during a…

For April Fool’s Day, Reddit ran a subreddit, r/place, that let users edit…

Issara Willenskomer talks in detail about the use of animation in UX design…

Uber uses psychology and video game mechanics to encourage drivers to work longer…

Emily Beam highlights confirmation bias in articles recently suggesting that more millennial men…

What does a pianist look at while playing? Put a pair of eye…

Jumpstarted by Elijah Meeks asking why visualization people are leaving the field for…

Trevor Martin for FiveThirtyEight used latent semantic analysis to do math with subreddits,…

Families often move out of the city to the suburbs for more affordable…

Commuting sucks. Here’s a straightforward map to compare how much or less your…

Using multiple polls as their source data, FiveThirtyEight is tracking approval and disapproval…

Looking for some data to play with? James P. Curley compiled Scrabble data…

Data is a great vehicle for arguments, but the (not just visual) perception…

Nicky Case, whose projects to simulate segregation and systems with emoji you might…

There are a lot of meteoroids circling around in space. Ian Webster visualized…

Sorting algorithms. Apparently there are an endless number of ways to visualize them…