Nathan Yau

Don’t let the maps fool you

Maps / data literacy

Maps are fun to look at and get easier to make every day,…
Problem solving game teaches statistics lesson →

Statistics / bias, Upshot

From the Upshot, A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving. Play it.…
Horizon Graphs, with a Food Pricing Example

Guides / prices

The rarely used chart type for time series data is actually quite nice, once you get the hang of it. Although it does have its limitations.
Comparison of shifted public opinion

Statistical Visualization / public opinion, Upshot

David Leonhardt and Alicia Parlapiano compared public opinion over time for various social…
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Truthful mapping →

Design / link, scale

How choice of scale changes a view completely, even with the same data.
Combining Inside Out emotions for new ones

Infographics / emotion, Inside Out

Spoiler alert for Inside Out. At the climax of the movie, we see…
Animated map shows Trans-Atlantic slave trade

Maps / animation, Slate, slavery

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database provides records for thousands of voyages between the…
A surveillance system that watches over an entire city

Statistics / privacy, security

Technology continues to advance quickly, but the social questions are lagging a bit.…
Data into art and connecting to humans

Data Art / Creators Project, human

Visualization tends to rest in the realm of efficiency and accuracy. From a…
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Wes Anderson Palettes →

Design / color, link

Primary colors used in frames of the director’s films. Someone made an R package for this a while back.
Same-sex marriage legalized in all states

Maps / gay marriage

The Supreme Court legalized gay marriage today. NPR shows before and after the…
Drought report cards for California water districts

Infographics / California, drought, Los Angeles Times, water

Thomas Suh Lauder for the Los Angeles Times provides you with a way…
Working with R at the New York Times

Visualization / Amanda Cox, Data Stories, lunch talk, R

Amanda Cox from the New York Times was on the Data Stories podcast.…
Playing chicken on the street and the ultimate battle for power

Self-surveillance / gender, walking

There’s the unspoken agreement between two people who walk directly towards each other.…
Refugee migration mapped globally

Maps / migration, New York Times, refugees

According to estimates recently released by the United Nations, about 14 million left…
Entire English Wikipedia in physical print

Data Art / physical, Wikipedia

The exhibit From Aaaaa! to ZZZap! opened last week with a hit of…
Excel heat map hack

Maps / Excel, heat map

John Nelson from IDV Solutions explains how he uses a Microsoft Excel hack…
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imager →

Software / images, link, R

An R package for image processing.
Statistics to weed out fraud

Statistics / fake data, fraud

As the Michael LaCour brouhaha settles into the archives of the Internet and…
Data journalism hoorah

Visualization / data journalism, Google

In parallel to the Google Trends release, the Google News Lab produced a…

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