This week is about helping data stand out in the land of many points.
Nathan Yau
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Draw attention visually
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When data shows that everything causes cancer
Harvard researchers published an analysis arguing that risk of cancer increases when people…
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Beliefs in life after death
Is there something that comes after we die? For the Pudding, Alvin Chang…
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Exposure to tariffs in Canada
Researchers at the School of Cities, a center at the University of Toronto,…
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Sound smart about charts
Duncan Bradley made a zine of one-liners from data visualization folks. It is…
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Color gradients that are accessible and perceptually steady
It has been a whole ten minutes since posting a color selection tool,…
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Extract color palettes from images
OKpalette is a tool to grab a color palette from an image. Load…
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Bedazzled campus surveillance
Over summer break, MIT installed over 500 AI-enabled surveillance cameras around campus. In…
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Charts we made along the way
This week is about finding your way by getting lost in the data.
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Jagged intelligence demonstrated with a puzzle
Large language models are heavily dependent on training data to determine what comes…
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Ideas and thought in the detours
For NYT Opinion, Giorgia Lupi argues that the best ideas come from getting…
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Dario Amodei on SNL Weekend Update discussing doom
Jane Wickline impersonated Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update.…
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Elevation map of the world
Bert Spaan, with help from Jules Schoonman, made an elevation map for the…
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Pie chart of what the Mars rover can see
New to me, Tom Gauld, for New Scientist, made a fine pie chart…
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Game to understand the president’s crypto endeavors
Thin Air, Real Money is a game to help you understand the cryptocurrency…
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Illustration of 30 WNBA seasons
Celebrating 30 seasons of the WNBA, ESPN has a fun piece on the…
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Visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources — September 2026 roundup
Here’s what happened in September.
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Biggest political donors so far
Using data from the Federal Election Commission, the Washington Post called out the…
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Music generated through live freeway traffic feed
A live Caltrans feed of the southbound 101 highway in California is translated…
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Income and spending inequality
Continuing the four-part series on wealth inequality in America, the most recent video…




















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