Nathan Yau

Decline of the school bus

Statistical Visualization / kids, school bus, Washington Post

For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the…
Infinite Craft with large language model

Network Visualization / game, Large Language Model, Neal Agarwal

Start with water, fire, wind, and earth and see what you can craft…
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Long Information

The Process / analysis, depth, size

There was a time when big infographics ruled, and then their popularity faded as quickly as it came. It wasn’t because of their size though, which might have been the only thing right about them.
A New FlowingData Book, Second Edition

Site News / book

I wrote a book! It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses…
Local wanderlust

Maps / Guardian, local, travel

Alastair Humphreys, using a 20 by 20 kilometer map of where he lives,…
Commonness of Races in Different Occupations

Data Underload / race, work

Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.
World railway map

Maps / transit, transportation, Zhaoxu Sui

Usually you see a railway map from a local perspective, because it’s meant…
Cost of a Big Mac at every McDonald’s in the United States

Maps / Big Mac, cost, McDonald's

A map, by Pantry & Larder, shows the cost of a Big Mac…
Shifting bird populations

Maps / birds, eBird, population, Washington Post

Using data from the crowdsourced database eBird, Harry Stevens mapped the shifts in…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, January 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for January.
Mathematical feature in all Sudoku puzzles

Infographics / math, Numberphile, Sudoku

For Numberphile, Simon Anthony explains the Phistomephel Ring. The shape always contains the…
Catalog of AI data tools

Software / AI, journalism, tools

Meant to be comprehensive more than a curated collection, the Journalist’s Toolbox AI…
Where else to find FlowingData

Site News / social media

You can always count on the site for updates on visualization, data, and…
DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect

Statistics / crime, DNA, ethics, facial recognition, privacy, Wired

In an effort to find a suspect in a 1990 murder, there was…
Oceans that all the rivers drain

Maps / drainage, Grasshopper Geography, ocean, rivers

Rivers drain into oceans. Grasshopper Geography color-coded the rivers in the world by…
Collection of NBA basketball data sources and apps

Data Sources / basketball, Sravan Pannala

If you’re into basketball data, Sravan Pannala is keeping a running list of…
Learning animal languages with AI

Statistical Visualization / AI, animals, Financial Times, sound

Financial Times highlights how researchers are using AI to try to learn what…
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Visual Metaphor

The Process / illustration, metaphor

Welcome to The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at…
Where restaurants serve Asian cuisines in the U.S.

Maps / Asian, Pew Research, restaurant

You can find Asian restaurants in most places in the United States, but…
Where it warmed the most in the world

Maps / climate change, global warming, Washington Post

Earth got its hottest year on record in 2023. Based on data from…

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