Salaries vary by occupation. These charts show the spread.
Nathan Yau
-
Salary and Occupation
-
Out of date Zodiac signs, visually explained
For NYT’s the Upshot, Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris, and Rumsey Taylor show how…
-
Music tempo to sonify rising temperatures
NPR enlisted the band Bettis And 3rd Degree to sonify rising temperatures in…
-
Reliability of jobs data
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released monthly jobs data, but after the firing…
-
Lidar to measure climate disasters
Jon Keegan of Beautiful Public Data highlights researchers who used lidar to estimate…
-
Pickleball courts take over, seen from the skies
For NYT’s the Upshot, Ethan Singer found the birth of pickleball courts in…
-
Members Only
Data with missing information
This week is about helping people see data for what it is and avoiding poor choices.
-
Facial recognition software leads to wrong man arrested for flashing
NYPD arrested the wrong man, because facial recognition marked a match. Maria Cramer…
-
Grok chatbot reflects political bias and Elon Musk’s preferences
The New York Times estimated political bias in Grok’s models. They entered questions…
-
Hacker accesses crash data against Tesla in $243m ruling
A Tesla Model S, while on “Autopilot”, crashed into a parked truck, killing…
-
What counts as rude behavior in public, by age group
Pew Research asked U.S. adults if certain behaviors in public, such as cursing…
-
Atlas of Space
Gordon Hart put together a fun interactive atlas of space. Click on objects,…
-
Checking TSA PreCheck time savings
TSA PreCheck allows U.S. travelers to skip the part of airport security where…
-
Counting the reduction of federal health workforce
The U.S. federal government does not release official numbers for the cuts to…
-
Most American and British words
For WaPo’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam goes looking for American and…
-
Members Only
Visualization Tools and Resources – August 2025
Here are tools to use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.
-
Vibe coding from a non-programmer’s perspective
For Wired, Lauren Goode spent a day vibe-coding at Notion:
The next assignment… -
Scraping the Spotify playlists of public figures
New to me, someone anonymously scraped and published the Spotify playlists of a…
-
Will Smith’s AI usage troubles and the fake-ish crowds
Will Smith posted a video showing highlights from his tour, but parts of…
-
Summer getting longer
For the Washington Post, Kasha Patel and Naema Ahmed mapped the change in…















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
