Nathan Yau

On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun…

For the past few years, Laurie Anderson has been using an AI chatbot…

Every chart type has its trade-offs. So instead of trying to show everything at once, use multiple views to show things separate.

For the New York Times, Eve Kahn describes the use of maps outside…

AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes.…

For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might…

Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums…

The climate is changing, which means some crops will fair better or worse…

The point of visualization is to understand what data is about, which is rarely just about the numbers and almost always about what the data represents.

A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the…

Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial…

There’s a total eclipse (a real one, not of the heart) happening on…

For CNN, Amy O’Kruk and Kenneth Uzquiano asked what would happen if we…

Harry Jefferies shared his grandfather’s 30-year project:
My grandpa who is 85 started…

Every month I collect tools and resources that help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for February.

Ben Ashforth set out to visit a street named after a day of…

During the 2024 NBA All-Star weekend, the basketball court was essentially a giant…