Nathan Yau

History of data visualization

Infographics / history, vintage

I have an affinity for new things designed as old things, so this…
Balloon maps

Maps / balloon, vintage

There was a time when the best way to get a view from…
National Geographic Infographics, the book

Infographics / book, National Geographic

Infographics devolved a bit in recent years, but there was a time the…
Data with the feels

Design / empathy, lunch talk

Data can be fact and analytical. It can help you make objective decisions.…
Going local on gun violence

Maps / guns, homicide, local

Sometimes data can look really noisy when you zoom in close, and so…
Football catches visualized

Infographics / football, New York Times

It’s always fun to go back to sports articles and graphics that were…
Members Only

How to Make an Animated Map in R, Part 4

Tutorials / animation, interpolation, R

In the the last part of the four-part series, you make a longer animation with more data and annotate.
Giant map for inauguration planning

Maps / inauguration, scale

In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
Change in rain, 2016

Maps / rain, Washington Post, weather

In some areas of the United States it poured down rain, which caused…
Looking for America’s heartland

Maps / heartland, quiz, Upshot

By definition, heartland is some central place of importance of a country. But…
Charting friend demographics over time

Self-surveillance / demographics, Friends

We tend to think of demographics on a large scale. Countries, counties, and…
2016.

Site News / annual review

That was fast. Just when you get used to dating with 2016, 2017…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2016

Visualization / best-of

Here are my favorites for the year.
U.S. culture through TV show geography

Maps / facebook, television, Upshot

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
Where people use certain words

Maps / dialect, Quartz, Twitter

Nikhil Sonnad for Quartz mapped the top 100,000 words used in tweets. Search…
How Bayesian inference works

Statistics / Bayes

You might remember Bayes mentioned a few times in your introduction to statistics…
Interpolate your data for animation in R

Coding / animation, package, R

The tweenr package in R, by Thomas Lin Pedersen, helps you interpolate data…
Minimizing discrimination in machine learning

Statistics / discrimination, machine learning

From Google Research, a look at how discrimination in machine learning can lead…
Map of New York City shadows

Maps / New York Times, shadows

Shadows cast by buildings affect the feel and flow of a city, and…
Christmas Movies as Charts

Chart Everything / Christmas, movies

‘Tis the season.

Page 176 of 397
<
1
...
173
174
175
176
177
178
...
397
>