Nathan Yau

Every NBA team’s chances of winning, by game minute

Statistical Visualization / basketball, FiveThirtyEight

Michael Beuoy made a win probability model for NBA teams and games, based…
Identifying cheaters in test results, a simple method

Statistical Visualization / cheating, education

Jonathan Dushoff had issues with students in his population biology class cheating on…
Bayes’ theorem explained with LEGO bricks

Visualization / Bayes, learning, LEGO

Bayes’ theorem is covered in introduction to statistics and probability courses, but I…
White House appoints first US Chief Data Scientist

News / data science, government

Did you hear the news? The White House officially appointed DJ Patil as…
A photo of everything touched, for 11 years

Self-surveillance / photo, remembering

Artist Alberto Frigo took a picture of every object he used with his…
Top 1% earners versus bottom 90%

Statistical Visualization / economics, income

Quoctrung Bui for Planet Money plotted average income for the top one percent…
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Making an Interactive Map with Category Filters

Tutorials / d3js, JavaScript

Let readers focus on the regions they care about to make their own comparisons and conclusions.
Impact of vaccines throughout history

Infographics / vaccination, Wall Street Journal

Not that anyone who does not vaccinate their kids cares, but Tynan DeBold…
Loading Data and Basic Formatting in R

Tutorials / R

It might not be sexy, but you have to load your data and get it in the right format before you can visualize it. Here are the basics, which might be all you need.
Automated Tinder and the Eigenface

Statistics / dating, Eigenface, Tinder

Because using Tinder takes up oh so much time swiping, swiping, and swiping,…
Seagull skytrails

Visualization / After Effects, compositing, video

Watch one bird fly around, and it’s hard to make out its flight…
Real-time dashboard for office plumbing

Self-surveillance / Arduino, sensors, Sid Lee

The Sid Lee agency in Paris has Arduino-powered sensors hooked up throughout their…
Audio landscape

Data Art / music

Audio Landscape is a novel music visualizer that constructs a landscape based on…
Not just one chart

Statistical Visualization / John Tukey

There is no more reason to expect one graph to “tell all” than…
Algorithm-generated song, based on income data

Data Art / algorithm, Brian Foo, music

In the first song of his music experiment Data-Driven DJ, visual artist Brian…
Visualization constraints

Design / constraints

In a discussion of context and visualization, Jen Christiansen pulls out a good…
Trust engineers

Statistics / experiment, facebook, lunch talk

The most recent episode of RadioLab is on social experimentation and social networks.…
Human brain size compared to animals’

Statistical Visualization / animals, brain

Mosaic provides a simple comparison of brain size in a handful of animals…
Pac-Man ghost algorithms

Statistics / Pac-Man

The ghosts in Pac-Man have different personalities represented by their search technique. For…
Job gains and losses over time

Infographics / jobs, Wall Street Journal

Andrew Van Dam and Renee Lightner for the Wall Street Journal provide a…

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