Nathan Yau

A warming climate has meant less snow in the northern hemisphere, which is…

If you’re traveling to a new city, it can be tricky to figure…

For The Washington Post, Hanna Zakharenko charted all the movies that were adapted…

We often talk about visualization in terms of restrictions and rules, as if you must limit your possibilities to make charts the right way. As you might have guessed, there are other options.

A refrigerator-sized panel popped off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 during the ascent…

In the 2000s, if you wanted to make interactive or animated visualization for…

Aaron Koelker used a receipt printer to print a six-foot long map of…

The classic coin flip is treated as a fair way to make decisions,…

There were many AI-based things in 2023. Simon Willison outlined what we learned…

For Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Michael D. McDonald report on the efforts to…

With each new AI-based tool that comes out, I begrudgingly kick the tires…

By Reddit user Pitazboras, a movie timeline for Oppenheimer with running time on…

Here is the good stuff for December in the last roundup for 2023.

Recharge, an art installation by Dries Depoorter, uses a system that detects when…

YouTube doesn’t offer numbers for how big they are, so Ethan Zuckerman and…

NYT’s The Upshot looked at 424 holiday movies released by the Hallmark and…

Neo Lu was scammed into a labor camp. In an effort to escape…

Here are some fun things to make with data in case you’re looking for a chart-ish distraction.

Kurzgesagt illustrates the scale of the tiniest of things and the biggest of…