Nathan Yau

AI is finding its way into the HR workflow to sift through resumes.…

For NYT’s The Upshot, Aatish Bhatia and Emily Badger model how colleges might…

Rolling Stone published a list in 2003 that ranked the 500 greatest albums…

The climate is changing, which means some crops will fair better or worse…

The point of visualization is to understand what data is about, which is rarely just about the numbers and almost always about what the data represents.

A title drop is when a movie mentions its own name during the…

Microchips have gotten tiny. Like smaller than a red blood cell tiny. Financial…

There’s a total eclipse (a real one, not of the heart) happening on…

For CNN, Amy O’Kruk and Kenneth Uzquiano asked what would happen if we…

Harry Jefferies shared his grandfather’s 30-year project:
My grandpa who is 85 started…

Every month I collect tools and resources that help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for February.

Ben Ashforth set out to visit a street named after a day of…

During the 2024 NBA All-Star weekend, the basketball court was essentially a giant…

Based on data from the USDA Census of Agriculture, this map by John…

To decide if values are high or low, sometimes you have to divide the numbers for a relative comparison instead of an absolute one.

This American Life tells the tales as old as time:
When it comes…