Nathan Yau

Another Data Point On the Way

Site News

We have another data point on the way, so it might suddenly go…
Procedurally generated spaceships

Data Art / Blender, procedural, spaceship

Video game developer Michael Davies provides a Blender script to procedurally generate pretty…
Sci-Fi short film scripted by machine learning algorithm

Data Art / machine learning, movie

Filmmaker Oscar Sharp and technologist Ross Goodwin fed a machine learning algorithm with…
Emoji semantic space

Statistics / emoji, neural network

Dango is an Android app that predicts relevant emojis as you type. Xavier…
What happened at Pulse in Orlando

Infographics / narrative, Orlando, Pulse

The Tampa Bay Times takes you through a 3-D model of Pulse Nightclub…
Who Still Smokes?

Data Underload / health, smoking

Two decades out from the first statewide ban on smoking in enclosed workplaces, here’s who still smokes.
We spend more at restaurants than at grocery stores

Statistical Visualization / eating, Quartz, spending

For decades, Americans spent more money at the grocery store than at eating…
Motion capture dance

Data Art / dance, motion capture

Really fun. “Motion capture, procedural animation and dynamic simulations combine to create a…
Nearly impossible to predict mass shootings with current data

Statistics / probability, shootings

Even if there were a statistical model that predicted a mass shooter with…
U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

Statistical Visualization / guns, mortality

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…
Firearms Dealers vs. Burgers, Pizza, and Coffee

Data Underload / firearms

As of May 2016, there were 64,432 licensed firearms dealers and pawnbrokers, which got me wondering how that compares to other businesses.
Americans are Growing Bigger

Data Underload / health, nutrition, obesity

We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.
Voting habits for various demographic groups

Infographics / demographics, election, Upshot

Voter turnout and political leanings for various demographic groups play an important role…
A map about the people who live there

Visualization

Geographers Seth Spielman and Alex Singleton used something called “geodemographic classification” to classify…
5 Tips for Learning to Code for Visualization

Guides / d3js, process, R

Here are some tips to get you started, based on my own experiences with R, and more recently, the JavaScript library d3.js.
A Course for Visualizing Time Series Data in R

Tutorials / R, time series

Learn to visualize temporal patterns in a couple of days.
Play chess against the machine and see what it’s thinking

Network Visualization / chess, Martin Wattenberg

The Thinking Machine, by Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak, shows you the thought…
How Much We Eat vs. How Much We Need

Data Underload / calories, diet

On average, we use less energy as we age, and so we should eat less. We don’t always adjust soon enough though.
Where people go to and from work

Maps / commute

With an animated take on the commute map, Mark Evans shows where people…
Game of Thrones discussions for every episode, visualized

Network Visualization / Game of Thrones, Twitter

I hear there’s some show called “Game of Thrones” that’s kind of popular…

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