Nathan Yau

Life cycle of Earth’s carbon dioxide

Maps / environment, NASA

The Cartography and Geovisualization Group at Oregon State University and NASA visualized a…
Speedy crossword solvers

Statistical Visualization / crosswords, FiveThirtyEight

Oliver Roeder for FiveThirtyEight covered this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the…
xkcd: U.S. of movie backgrounds

Maps / movies, xkcd

xkcd sectioned the United States by the background in movies. Because xkcd.…
Quantified email

Self-surveillance / email

There were a couple of similar quantified self articles last week about email.…
Really slow speed of light

Maps / scale, space

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
Married couple tax bonuses and penalties

Statistical Visualization / Amanda Cox, New York Times, taxes

Using calculations by Nick Kasprak from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities…
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How to Make Dot Plots in R

Tutorials / R

It’s easy to draw dots. The challenge is to make them meaningful and readable.
Why study statistics

Statistics / ASA, marketing

In their continued efforts to present statistics as a field that doesn’t suck,…
LEGO explainer: Taxes and income inequality

Infographics / income, LEGO, taxes

LEGOs make everything better. David Wessel for Brookings Institution explains how federal taxes…
It’s All Greek (or Chinese or Spanish or…) to Me

Data Underload / language

In English, there’s an idiom that notes confusion: “It’s all Greek to me.” Other languages have similar sayings, but they don’t use Greek as their point of confusion.
Estimated number of Game of Thrones readers who have died

Statistics / Game of Thrones

We know there are a lot of deaths in Game of Thrones, but…
Asteroid database

Data Sources / asteroids, space

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…
A tall graphic to show Mt. Everest scale

Infographics / Mt. Everest, scale, Washington Post

Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…
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More on Gestalt principles for visualization →

Design / Gestalt, link

Elijah Meeks continues his essay on using Gestalt principles for visualization. See parts 1 and 2 first.
Color use in paintings, by year

Statistical Visualization / color, paintings

Martin Bellander saw some projects that extracted color from movie posters and trailers,…
Cocktail construction chart

Infographics / cocktails

Remember that engineer’s guide to drinks a while back? I think this one…
Dick pics, privacy, and the NSA

News / privacy

Did you watch the latest Last Week Tonight with John Oliver yet? You…
California water use per capita, by district

Maps / drought, New York Times

Matthew Bloch and Haeyoun Park for the New York Times mapped, for about…
Gallons of water to produce foods

Statistical Visualization / drought, Los Angeles Times

With all the talk recently about how much water it takes to grow…
Every Game of Thrones death

Infographics / Game of Thrones, Washington Post

I hear there’s a show called “Game of Thrones” on the T.V., where…

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