Nathan Yau

Chances that a drug treatment helps

Infographics / drugs, health, Upshot

It’s a common belief that if someone has a medical condition, a patient…
State Rorschach

Data Underload / kidding

Stare at boundary lines long enough, and you’ll start to see weird things too.
Questionable fumble statistics for Deflate-Gate

Mistaken Data / football, Patriots, sports

A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…
Mapping ice layers with radar data

Maps / ice, NASA, weather

I don’t know exactly how much data NASA has in the bank, but…
A century of National Geographic maps

Maps / history, National Geographic

Celebrating the 100th year of the National Geographic cartographic department, they provide a…
Fibonacci sculptures fake movement

Data Art / 3-D printing, Fibonacci

John Edmark made some pretty things.…
Snow depth by dogs

Infographics / BBC, snow

For the US east coasters and their pets.…
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Choropleth Maps and Shapefiles in R

Tutorials / choropleth, R, shapefile

Fill those empty polygons with color, based on shapefile or external data.
Sexual insecurities found in Google search results

Infographics / Google, New York Times, sex

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz continues with his Google search data-related op-eds for the New York…
Metrocard purchasing workflows compared

Design / MetroCard, subway

The process to purchase a MetroCard for the New York Subway is different…
The dots are people

Design / human

The simple analysis is to approach data blind, as machine output. But this…
Being dangerous

Data Sharing / lunch talk, privacy

Think big data, and it’s tough not to associate it with big corporations…
Convert geographic data to 3-D models for printing

Software / 3-D, NodeJS, physical, shapefile

This seems like fun. The NodeJS package shp2stl by Doug McCune lets you…
Book checkouts from the British Library

Infographics / British Library, checkouts

In efforts to emphasize the importance of the library (very), the British Library…
Whale songs visualized

Data Art / music, whale

It’s been known for decades that the sounds that whales make show patterns…
Interactive: How Americans Get to Work

Data Underload / commute, work

The way that people get around can say a lot about how a place is made up. Here’s an interactive map that shows how people get to work in America.
Feeling hot, hot, hot

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, environment, temperature, time series, weather

When you look at overall global temperatures over time, you see a rising…
Chart none of the things

Design / human

When it comes to storytelling, copious amounts of data often means lots of…
Genetic algorithm walkers

Statistics / algorithm, QWOP, simulation

If you ever wondered what it looks like when QWOP-like figures learn to…
Basic chart, wrong conclusions

Mistaken Data / Bloomberg, income

A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…

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