Nathan Yau

2015

Site News / annual review

This was the second year of doing FlowingData full-time and everything seems to be running smoothly. Also: I feel really old.
Shakespeare tragedies as network graphs

Network Visualization / Shakespeare

Martin Grandjean looked at the structure of Shakespeare tragedies through character interactions. Each…
Atlas of United States history

Maps / history, Stamen

In a collaboration between the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond…
Police violence incident data

Data Sources / police, shootings

There isn’t a complete government record for people killed by police, which is…
Link

The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed →

Mistaken Data / link, Quartz

Suggestions. Not just snark.
R growth on StackOverflow reigns supreme

Coding / R

Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…
10 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2015

Visualization / best-of

These are my picks for the best of 2015. As usual, they could easily appear in a different order on a different day, and there are projects not on the list that were also excellent.
All known planets outside our solar system

Maps / exoplanets, Jan Willem Tulp, space

Jan Willem Tulp, in collaboration with Visualized, shows all known exoplanets (currently 1,942…
Tour of a million stars

Maps / space, stars

The Online Star Register takes you through a delightful view of a million…
Timelines show Star Wars character interactions

Network Visualization / fiction, timeline, xkcd

Remember when xkcd charted character interactions for fictional stories? Inspired by that and…
Mathematical gift wrapping

Miscellaneous / gifts, math

Mathematician Katie Steckles shows logical solutions to wrapping variously shaped presents.

I could’ve…
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Squaire.js →

Coding / JavaScript, link, Wall Street Journal

JavaScript library from Wall Street Journal to make the now popular square state grid.
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k-means + d3.js →

Coding / d3js, link

The simple clustering technique implemented with d3.js.
A Day in the Life of Americans

Data Underload / simulation, time use

I wanted to see how daily patterns emerge at the individual level and how a person’s entire day plays out. So I simulated 1,000 of them.
Tinder robot behaves to palm sweatiness

Data Art / robot, self, Tinder

Take all the guesswork out of finding “love” on Tinder, and let the…
Guide for dealing with bad data

Statistics / Quartz, real data

Enter the real world of data and statistics, and you find that files…
All the roads that lead to Rome

Maps / moovel, Rome

As the saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” Folks at the moovel…
Blueprint for a carbon-free world

Statistical Visualization / environment, National Geographic

Getting to 100 percent renewable energy seems like such a far away goal…
Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth

Maps / environment, NASA

NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…
Mass shootings count – Depends on your definition

Infographics / definitions, shootings, Washington Post

With recent events, you’ve likely seen the articles and graphics that get into…

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