Nathan Yau

Plant life cycle shows a breathing Earth

Maps / environment, NASA

NASA mapped the annual cycle of all plant life on the planet in…
Mass shootings count – Depends on your definition

Infographics / definitions, shootings, Washington Post

With recent events, you’ve likely seen the articles and graphics that get into…
How various demographic groups can change the election result

Statistics / elections, FiveThirtyEight, government

Does your vote matter? Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman for FiveThirtyEight provide an…
Numbers quiz tests how well you know your country

Statistics / Guardian, ignorance, quiz

In their annual survey that tests public perception against reality, Ipsos Mori asked…
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How to Make an Interactive Bar Chart With a Slider

Tutorials / d3js, JavaScript

Provide a slider for the standard bar chart so that users can shift focus to a point of interest.
Sunset quality forecasting

Statistics / prediction, weather

Forget temperature and rain weather forecasts. I want to know when the sunset…
Ant time-lapse shows movement patterns

Maps / ants, time-lapse

Ant activity can seem mysterious at times. The pack seems to start out…
Cleaning sale: Half off in the FlowingData shop →

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Everything — all two items — in the FlowingData shop is half off.…
Most Common Use of Time, By Age and Sex (2015)

Data Underload / time use

Typical time use varies by who you talk to. This interactive shows you the differences when you vary age and sex.
Fast image classifications in real-time

Software / classification, images, neural networks

NeuralTalk2 uses neural networks to caption images quickly. To demonstrate, the video below…
Thanksgiving flight patterns

Maps / flights, New York Times, Thanksgiving

Millions of Americans will fly home this Thanksgiving weekend. (Based on my morning…
Metadata surveillance investigation

Statistics / metadata, privacy

Metadata can tell you a lot, and most of us agree that it’s…
Sometimes the y-axis doesn’t start at zero, and it’s fine

Design / baseline, Vox

It’s true. Sometimes it’s okay for the y-axis to start at a non-zero…
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Do Visual Stories Make People Care? →

Design / engagement, link, NPR

The NPR Visuals team tracked user activity on their visual stories to see how people read or didn’t.
Food tracker diary timeline

Self-surveillance / annotation, New York Times, weight

With the availability of weight and food tracking apps these days, there are…
Daylight Saving Time geography

Maps / Andy Woodruff, daylight saving

Keith Collins for Quartz made an interactive that showed how much more daylight…
Out-of-state gun purchasing

Maps / guns, New York Times

In states with stricter gun laws, firearms still find their way in. Based…
Plotly.js, a JavaScript graphing library, open-sourced

Software / JavaScript, Plotly

Plotly, a service that lets you make interactive charts online, open-sourced their main…
ASCII business report

Statistical Visualization / Ascii, Bloomberg

Bloomberg put together their list of 50 companies to watch in 2016. For…
What the world eats

Statistical Visualization / Fathom, health, National Geographic

Diets vary around the world. Fathom Information Design for National Geographic charted the…

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