Nathan Yau

Quick change of mind on social issues

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, marriage

As Supreme Court hearings for same-sex marriage start today, Alex Tribou and Keith…
Recurring characters in film and the words used to describe them

Infographics / text, tropes

Stereotropes, made by the Bocoup Data Visualization Team, explores the many tropes in…
Why exploring big data is hard

Statistical Visualization / big data, lunch talk

The talks from OpenVisConf 2015 went up, so I’m slowly making my way…
Emptied reservoirs in California

Statistical Visualization / drought

Winter is over and it’s shorts weather these days in California. This is…
Book: Statistics Done Wrong is a guide for how to do statistics right

Statistics / book

A while back Alex Reinhart, a statistics instructor and PhD student at Carnegie…
Color timeline for Avengers comic book covers

Infographics / Avengers, color, comics, Wall Street Journal

The Avengers comic has been around since 1963 and the look and feel…
Far fewer black men than black women

Statistics / census, race, Upshot

Justin Wolfers, David Leonhardt, and Kevin Quealy for the Upshot explore the gender…
Wealth inequality explained in charts

Statistical Visualization / economy, income, wealth

Wealth inequality is a real thing that is complex and a result of…
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Awesome Public Datasets →

Data Sources / link

“This list of public data sources are collected and tidyed from blogs, answers, and user responses.”
Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide

Maps / environment, NASA

The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
Speedy crossword solvers

Statistical Visualization / crosswords, FiveThirtyEight

Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight covered this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the…
xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds

Maps / movies, xkcd

xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…
Quantified email

Self-surveillance / email

There were a couple of similar quantified self articles last week about email.…
Really slow speed of light

Maps / scale, space

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
Married couple tax bonuses and penalties

Statistical Visualization / Amanda Cox, New York Times, taxes

Using calculations by Nick Kasprak from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities…
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How to Make Dot Plots in R

Tutorials / R

It’s easy to draw dots. The challenge is to make them meaningful and readable.
Why study statistics

Statistics / ASA, marketing

In their continued efforts to present statistics as a field that doesn’t suck,…
LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality

Infographics / income, LEGO, taxes

LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…
It’s All Greek (or Chinese or Spanish or…) to Me

Data Underload / language

In English, there’s an idiom that notes confusion: “It’s all Greek to me.” Other languages have similar sayings, but they don’t use Greek as their point of confusion.
Estimated number of Game of Thrones readers who have died

Statistics / Game of Thrones

We know there are a lot of deaths in Game of Thrones, but…

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