Nathan Yau

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How to Make and Use Bar Charts in R

Tutorials / R

The chart type seems simple enough, but there sure are a lot of bad ones out there. Get yourself out of default mode.
Probably not a heat map

Maps / heatmap

A heat map is a grid of numbers colored by value. I wrote…
Where to Find Jeopardy! Daily Doubles

Data Underload / Jeopardy

Placement of Daily Double clues, from season 1 to 31. Watch them play out.
Madden ratings formula

Statistics / gaming, Madden, sports

In football video game Madden, NFL players are scored based on skill, which…
rvest: R package to scrape web data

Software / R

Inspired by the Python libraries RoboBrowser and BeautifulSoup, the rvest package by Hadley…
Spreadsheets for life

Software / Excel, Planet Money, spreadsheet

Planet Money goes back to a 1984 article by Steven Levy that discusses…
Texas hold ’em win probabilities

Statistical Visualization / gambling, poker

Software engineer Chris Beaumont visualized the strength of opponent hands in Texas hold…
Gambler’s perspective on sports team win probabilities

Statistical Visualization / gambling, sports

Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…
Every NBA team’s chances of winning, by game minute

Statistical Visualization / basketball, FiveThirtyEight

Michael Beuoy made a win probability model for NBA teams and games, based…
Identifying cheaters in test results, a simple method

Statistical Visualization / cheating, education

Jonathan Dushoff had issues with students in his population biology class cheating on…
Bayes’ theorem explained with LEGO bricks

Visualization / Bayes, learning, LEGO

Bayes’ theorem is covered in introduction to statistics and probability courses, but I…
White House appoints first US Chief Data Scientist

News / data science, government

Did you hear the news? The White House officially appointed DJ Patil as…
A photo of everything touched, for 11 years

Self-surveillance / photo, remembering

Artist Alberto Frigo took a picture of every object he used with his…
Top 1% earners versus bottom 90%

Statistical Visualization / economics, income

Quoctrung Bui for Planet Money plotted average income for the top one percent…
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Making an Interactive Map with Category Filters

Tutorials / d3js, JavaScript

Let readers focus on the regions they care about to make their own comparisons and conclusions.
Impact of vaccines throughout history

Infographics / vaccination, Wall Street Journal

Not that anyone who does not vaccinate their kids cares, but Tynan DeBold…
Loading Data and Basic Formatting in R

Tutorials / R

It might not be sexy, but you have to load your data and get it in the right format before you can visualize it. Here are the basics, which might be all you need.
Automated Tinder and the Eigenface

Statistics / dating, Eigenface, Tinder

Because using Tinder takes up oh so much time swiping, swiping, and swiping,…
Seagull skytrails

Visualization / After Effects, compositing, video

Watch one bird fly around, and it’s hard to make out its flight…
Real-time dashboard for office plumbing

Self-surveillance / Arduino, sensors, Sid Lee

The Sid Lee agency in Paris has Arduino-powered sensors hooked up throughout their…

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