Nathan Yau

Jobs of a Certain Age

Data Underload / age, work

There are hundreds of occupations, and while the exact number varies by classification system, most U.S. government organizations list about 500 of them. These are the standouts.
Jimmy Carter’s longevity compared to other U.S. presidents

Statistical Visualization / age, Jimmy Carter, president, Washington Post

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, turned 100 years old.…
Reordered baseball lineup over decades

Infographics / baseball, lineup, Pudding

Baseball’s batting lineup has changed from what seemed to make sense to what…
Rainfall in the path of Hurricane Helene

Maps / hurricane, rainfall, Washington Post

Western North Carolina got the brunt of Hurricane Helene with two feet of…
Counting mullets in the AFL

Infographics / ABC News, mullet, sports

The mullet has grown popular in the Australian Football League. ABC News counted…
Trash balloons released by North Korea landing in South Korea

Infographics / balloon, garbage, Korea, Reuters

North Korea has been releasing thousands of trash bags into the air with…
Hurricane categories, visually explained

Infographics / hurricane, Washington Post

As Hurricane Helene approached Florida, it grew from a tropical storm to a…
Members Only

Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – September 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for September 2024.
Statistical challenges of measuring immigration

Statistics / estimation, immigration, Jed Kolko, Slow Boring, uncertainty

Jed Kolko, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs of the…
Q&A with Amstat News

Site News / Amstat News, interview

Fourteen years ago, I did a short Q&A with Amstat News, where apparently…
Election game to win the White House against other readers

Infographics / election, Financial Times, game

For Financial Times, Sam Learner, Oliver Roeder, and Irene de la Torre Arenas…
Energy used to generate an email with AI

Infographics / email, energy, generative, scale, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan illustrate the scale of…
Environmental cost of food

Infographics / cost, environment, food, New York Times

The New York Times highlights the work of True Price Foundation, a group…
Members Only

How to Map with Contour Lines and GeoTIFF in R

Tutorials / R

GeoTIFF data can provide high granularity but make it hard to see patterns when data is sparse. Contour lines provide an aggregated view that makes patterns easier to see.
Grocery owner territories

Maps / grocery, Washington Post

Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains.…
Immigration in Democrat counties

Maps / Bloomberg, election, immigration, politics

For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show…
Rowboat for fast CSV exploration

Apps / csv, Fathom

Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…
Political leanings of first and last names

Statistical Visualization / names, politics, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…
Satellite imagery of all the outdoor basketball courts

Maps / basketball, Matt Daniels, OpenStreetMap, Pudding, satellite imagery

For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…
Members Only

Refreshing Map Tutorials; Design Trade-Offs and Making the Wrong Choice

The Process / contrast, trade-off

Visualization always involves trade-offs between audience, insights, and resources. Sometimes you make the wrong choice.

Page 22 of 392
<
1
...
19
20
21
22
23
24
...
392
>