Nathan Yau

U.S. inflation is high, and the prices of almost everything are rising fast…

As a ratio of home prices to household income, the cost of buying…

This week, we talk limitations of the defaultiest of defaultiest chart types.

Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is…

Disney shutdown FiveThirtyEight last year, but the archive stayed online. Well, they got…

Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality…

For the Pudding, Russell Samora, with design and illustration by Shelly Tan, analyzed…

World Bank, which releases an atlas every few years, published an Atlas of…

The Eurovision Song Contest is in its 70th year. Every year, each country…

Denice W. Ross and Christopher Steven Marcum, from the University of California at…

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill and Leslie Shapiro visualized users who…

This week, we refresh an old chart with new data, interaction, and improved design.

Science profiled Hany Farid, a researcher in digital forensics at the University of…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published cost estimates for April 2026. If…

The percentage of U.S. men in the workforce has been declining for decades,…

Raymond Zhong and Harry Stevens, for the New York Times, go with a…

For the New York Times, Agnes Chang and Pablo Robles illustrate the journey…

For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…

This week is about constraints.