Nathan Yau

Chart data quickly with open source Charted

Software / Charted, medium

Charted is a tool used internally at Medium that they recently released into…
Pianogram

Statistical Visualization / distribution, histogram, music, piano

This is what you get when you cross a histogram and piano keys…
English versus Chinese color descriptors

Infographics / color, language, Wikipedia

Color exists on a continuous spectrum, but we bin them with names and…
Easier online choropleth maps with Landline

Software / choropleth, JavaScript, ProPublica

Despite the frequent use of choropleth maps online, they’re still kind of tricky…
Alinea cooker

Miscellaneous / Alinea, food

Alinea is a restaurant by Grant Achatz known for deconstructing flavors and piecing…
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Mapping With Shapefiles in R – Getting Started

Tutorials / R, shapefile

Geographic data is often available as a shapefile, and there’s plenty of heavy software to get that data in a map. R is an open source option, and as a bonus, much of the work can be done in a few lines of code.
Fitbit data to be used in court as evidence

Self-surveillance / Fitbit, law

Personal data from Facebook, Twitter, and email are already used, so sure why…
Tracking global fishing through satellite data

Maps / fishing, Google, ocean, Oceana, SkyTruth

Global Fishing Watch is an initiative to place some accountability on global fishing,…
Planets as fruit to show scale

Infographics / astronomy, scale

I still don’t understand the relative size of planets. The universe is too…
Earth-orbiting satellites, all of them

Statistical Visualization / Quartz, satellites, space

David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz for Quartz visualized the satellites orbiting Earth. There’s…
You, Me and My Computer

Data Art / Lauren McCarthy, lunch talk

This talk that Lauren McCarthy gave at Eyeo is good. McCarthy, an artist…
Casual visualization books for the coffee table

Visualization / books, casual

Since my son was born, it’s been a challenge to focus on a…
A collection of small datasets

Data Sources

Sometimes you need data, any data, to test or mess around with. Sometimes…
This is big data.

Miscellaneous / big data, humor

A one-off tumblr that catalogs stock images that depict the tumultuous, rising sea…
Wireless networks translated to sound

Data Art / invisible, WiFi

Wi-fi is embedded in our everyday lives so much that we don’t pay…
Relationship Status Geography

Data Underload / choropleth, marriage

Some places attract young singles, whereas others attract married couples and families. I was curious how this varied across the country, so I mapped it.
Unclaimed remains

Data Sources / death, Los Angeles Times, mortuary

People die, and for various reasons many bodies go unclaimed. In Los Angeles…
Berlin wall of lighted balloons

Data Art / Berlin Wall, installation, remembering

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lightgrenze, translated…
Jeopardy! clues data

Data Sources / Jeopardy

Here’s some weekend project data for you. Reddit user trexmatt dumped a dataset…
Ballet dance traces

Data Art / Arduino, ballet

Electronic Traces, by Lesia Trubat, tracks ballet movements and allows dancers to see…

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