Nathan Yau

What I Use to Visualize Data

Guides / tools

“What tool should I learn? ” I hesitate to answer, because I use what works best for me, which isn’t necessarily the best for someone else or the “best” overall. Nevertheless, here’s my toolset.
Send map tiles to 3-D printer

Maps / 3-D printing, Mapzen, OpenStreeMap

Mapzen, which offers a vector tile service, made Tile Exporter, so that you…
Hurricane simulations show severe flooding in Houston

Maps / hurricane, ProPublica, Texas Tribune

In 2008, Hurricane Ike blew just past the Houston Ship Channel, “home to…
Marrying Age

Data Underload / marriage

People get married at various ages, but there are definite trends that vary across demographic groups. What do these trends look like?
Cell reception on the subway, mapped

Maps / mobile, New York, subway

Daniel Goddemeyer and Dominikus Baur grew interested in cell reception while on the…
Super Tuesday simulation to show uncertainty

Infographics / elections, simulation, uncertainty, Upshot

As we know, there are various outcomes during election season, with uncertainty in…
Impact of Best Picture Oscar nomination on profit

Infographics / box office, movies, Oscars

I think the general assumption is that getting an Oscar nomination for Best…
Possible paths for a Trump nomination loss or win

Infographics / elections, government, simulation, Upshot

It pains me to imagine a time when Donald Drumpf earns a Republican…
Screen-capping Google Maps for traffic

Software / Alyson Hurt, Google Maps, screen capture

Alyson Hurt quickly wrote some code to take screen captures of a Google…
Vega-Lite for quick online charts

Software / Trifacta

A few years ago, Trifacta released Vega, a “visualization grammar” that lets you…
Link

Perceptual Scaling of Map Symbols →

Design / link, scaling

Scale circles by area or by how they are actually perceived?
Code as microorganism

Data Art / code, GitHub

Taking a step beyond 2-D glyphs, Codeology depicts GitHub user activity based on…
How much warmer your city was in 2015

Statistical Visualization / environment, New York Times, temperature

It was hotter in 2015 than any other year ever. K. K. Rebecca…
Social network of Earth’s plants and animals

Network Visualization / environment, nature, video

Plants and animals interact with each other to stay alive, which in turn…
The Daily Mail Stole My Visualization, Twice

Site News / Daily Mail, theft

Last month, I published an interactive visualization that simulates how and when you…
Supreme Court shifts in power

Infographics / government, Supreme Court, Upshot

The Upshot has been doing a good bit on the Supreme Court dynamics…
Data scientists mostly just do arithmetic

Statistics / data science

Noah Lorang, a data scientist at Basecamp, explains the key for most companies…
Emergency room data in R

Data Sources / emergency room, Hadley Wickham, R

For my graphic on emergency room visits over time and the other on…
Math of crime and terrorism

Statistics / crime, Hannah Fry, Numberphile

Numberphile, from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, is one my new favorite YouTube…
Million to One Shot, Doc

Data Underload / emergency room, health, rectum

Between 2009 and 2014, there were an estimated 17,968 visits to the emergency room for things stuck in a rectum. Here are those things’ stories.

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