Nathan Yau

Using Amazon’s $5 button for personal data collection

Self-surveillance / Amazon, button

Set it up in ten minutes.
Demographics of laughter on the web

Statistics / facebook, laughing

There are a handful of ways to express laughter online, and it appears…
Fitbit during sex

Self-surveillance / Fitbit, humor

Reddit user noveltysin wore a Fitbit during sex, and then posted a screenshot…
The Statistical Atlas that Keeps On Going

Statistical Atlas / government, United States

I already revived the first Statistical Atlas of the United States from 1870 with modern data, but there’s still more data to look at. So I kept on going.
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Using BuzzFeed’s listicle format to tell stories with maps and charts →

Design / BuzzFeed, link, listicle

Peter Aldhous on his workflow and speeding up the visualization process for the news.
Real Chart Rules to Follow

Guides / pitfalls, rules

There are rules—usually for specific chart types meant to be read in a specific way—that you shouldn’t break. When they are, everyone loses. This is that small handful.
The Price is Right winner and cancer survivor calculates the odds

Statistics / cancer, game theory, probability, survival, The Price is Right

Elisa Long, a professor in Decisions, Operations, and Technology Management at the University…
Denver Broncos testing in-game analytics

Statistics / football, sports

Analytics continues its spread into the various facets of sports. Just recently, the…
Disappearing Arctic reflected in National Geographic maps

Maps / Arctic, global warming, National Geographic

In the most recent update to their atlas coming in September, National Geographic…
Data cleaning tips

Statistics / cleaning

When you first learn statistics, visualization, or any data-related subject, the data usually…
Extract data from PDF files and export to CSV

Software / csv, PDF

Tabula, available for Windows and Mac, lets you extract data from PDF files,…
Why government sites are outdated and very much not fun to use

Software / government, Reply All

Government data sites are typically sluggish and a pain to use. So many…
Possible float routes for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Maps / flights, New York Times

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down a year ago, and with recently found…
Exploding nation of poverty

Maps / poverty

Poverty is on the rise. Justin Palmer mapped it for major cities in…
Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty

Statistics / crime, FiveThirtyEight, Marshall Project, simulation, uncertainty

Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
Tufte style charts in R

Coding / custom, Edward Tufte, R

Lukasz Piwek is chipping away at a collection of Tufte-style charts using R,…
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How to Map and Use GeoTIFF Files in R

Tutorials / GeoTiff, R

It’s like working with a bunch of tiny dots, and oh look, all of sudden patterns emerge.
United States electricity map

Maps / electricity, Washington Post

The Washington Post mapped power plants in the United States by type and…
Top high school plays and musicals, by decade

Statistical Visualization / NPR, ranking, theatre

Based on annual high school play and musical rankings from the magazine Dramatics,…
Technology sector, share of market over time

Statistical Visualization / Economist, technology

Here’s a straightforward stacked area chart from the Economist that shows shifting market…

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