Nathan Yau

Easier Census data browsing with CensusReporter

Apps / census

Census data can be interesting and super informative, but getting the data out…
New data jobs this month

Job Board

It’s been just under a month since the Job Board went up, and…
Sasquatch sightings

Maps / Joshua Stevens, sasquatch

Josh Stevens, a PhD candidate at Penn State, mapped 92 years of sasquatch…
D.C. building heights study

Visualization / urban planning, Washington Post

Emily Chow and Gene Thorp for The Washington Post explored the change in…
Excel paintings

Software / art, Excel

Tatsuo Horiuchi wanted to learn something new before retiring, so he bought a…
Fashion fingerprints →

Visualization / fashion, New York Times

In a collaborative effort at The New York Times, a Fashion Week browser…
How you know you’re in an upscale neighborhood

Miscellaneous / analog, gas

By way of reddit, analog traces, or as they’re more commonly known: dirt.…
Game map from Grand Theft Auto 5

Maps / game

With just five days left until Grand Theft Auto 5 is out, a…
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Working with Line Maps, the Google Places API, and R

Tutorials / Google, MySQL, Python, R

A frequent challenge of visualization is behind the scenes, to get the data and to mold it into the format you need. Do that. Then map.
Treemap art

Data Art / Ben Shneiderman, treemap

Ben Shneiderman invented the treemap in the 1990s to visualize the hierarchical contents…
Where NFL quarterbacks throw

Maps / football, Grantland, sports

Kirk Goldsberry, known for his basketball analysis and shot charts, has applied his…
Crunching the wedding numbers

Statistical Visualization / n-gram, wedding

Weddings are special events where friends and family come together to celebrate, and…
Weather models, a visual comparison

Statistical Visualization / weather

Forecast, one of the best if not the best quick-look weather sites, uses…
UK Census at risk

Statistics / census

There is a possibility the UK Census is scrapped for cheaper options next…
Age of city buildings

Maps / age, buildings

When we think about the age of cities, it’s common to think of…
London to Brighton train ride, 1953-2013

Visualization / BBC, train, video

In 1953, the BBC filmed a train ride from London to Brighton and…
Most popular porn searches, by state

Data Underload / porn, search

We’ve seen that we can learn from what people search for, through the…
Data in the service of humanity

Statistics / Jake Porway, talk

For this rainy Labor Day, here’s an uplifting talk by DataKind founder Jake…
WTF visualizations

Ugly Charts / Tumblr

There are a lot of poorly conceived graphics that make little sense or…
Etymology and word usage when you ‘define’ with Google

Visualization / define, Google

Pro tip: When you Google “define <INSERT WORD HERE>” and open the information…

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