Nathan Yau

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Unexpected Places

The Process / audience, medium, purpose

You spent time and effort on a data project and it ends up in unexpected places. Do you just shrug and let it pass or do you try to get a handle on the work so that it’s not misconstrued out of context?
Maps of climate tipping points

Maps / climate change, New York Times, tipping point

The climate is changing, and researchers believe that after some point, there will…
Superblocks, an urban planning compromise for cars and pedestrians

Infographics / superblock, urban planning, Washington Post

Living in city centers with little space to spend time outside and a…
Meat industry olympic chart

Infographics / David Mora, meat, video

Speaking of data projects in unexpected places, David Mora repurposed one of my…
Name guessing probabilities on talk radio

Site News / names, radio

A few years ago, I made an interactive chart that guesses your name…
Sun vs. Moon, a game kind of

Infographics / game, Neal Agarwal

Neal Agarwal made a game of sorts where you either click for the…
Deepfake Elon Musk to scam people out of their savings

Artificial Intelligence / deepfake, Elon Musk, ethics, New York Times, scam

It’s gotten relatively easy to replace mouth movements in video and to generate…
One million screenshots of the web’s homepages in a single layout

Network Visualization / screenshot, Urlbox

One Million Screenshots, by Urlbox, is a collection of 1,048,576 homepage screenshots in…
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Re-Edit: Odd Color Choice for a Map

The Process / color, re-edit

Choosing colors can seem like a burden when you just want to make something quick, which is why some people just use default color schemes. But the few extra minutes is worth it.
Testing AI tools to make a visual data story

Artificial Intelligence / Pudding, storytelling

For The Pudding, Russell Samora and Michelle Pera-McGhee gave generative AI a serious…
See How Your Weight Compares

Data Underload / BMI, height, weight

Are more Americans heavier than you or are they lighter? The following chart compares your weight against other adults.
Uncertain risk behind climate change models

Maps / Bloomberg, climate change, risk, uncertainty

To demonstrate the level of uncertainty in using climate forecasting models, Bloomberg compared…
Run speeds in the men’s 100-meter race

Infographics / New York Times, Noah Lyles, Olympics, running

Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meter, but he started as the slowest runner…
Best NBA players in the Olympics, by country since the 1992 Dream Team

Infographics / basketball, Olympics, Sportradar

In 1992, when the Dream Team dominated basketball in the Olympics, the best…
Olympic medal tracker variations

Statistical Visualization / medal, Olympics, tracker

As the 2024 Summer Olympics wrap up, medal trackers will fade from homepages…
AI selfie coaching

Artificial Intelligence / Dries Depoorter, selfie

Generative AI things are often unsettling, but the playful uses I’m into. Dries…
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Shifting Visualization Process, 300

The Process / analysis, options, practice

This is the 300th weekly issue of The Process. Have things changed? Do we visualize data differently now? Where is this headed?
Scale of dragons from House of the Dragon

Infographics / fiction, House of the Dragon, scale

Dragons are pretty big, I guess. (Please let me know if you know…
Two kinds of bar charts

Statistical Visualization / aggregate, counting, Michael Correll, uncertainty

Michael Correll describes two kinds of bar charts in the world. The first…
Emotional overlap Venn diagrams

Infographics / emotion, Inside Out

I’m hearing murmurs that the Venn diagram is making a comeback. Six Seconds…

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