Nathan Yau

Dip in solar generation during the solar eclipse

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, eclipse, solar

Solar power is clean and all, but what happens when the sun is…
Map of the 2023 solar eclipse

Maps / eclipse, New York Times, solar

The moon is going to get in the way of the sun this…
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Scale of Things

The Process / scale

Whether a difference seems big or small, important or not, depends on the scale you choose.
Where the clouds are the highest

Maps / cloud, height, Washington Post

Cloud formation depends on temperature and moisture levels, so in places of high…
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How to Make a Heatmap with Irregular Bins in R

Tutorials / R

There are existing functions and packages to make heatmaps in R, but when the data is irregular, it’s worth going custom.
Real space location of Star Trek and other science fiction

Maps / fiction, Overview Effect, space, Star Trek

Star Trek and related might be fictional, but they usually reference real stars,…
Nobel Prize for research in global labor markets, using historical data

Statistics / Claudia Goldin, economics, gender, Nobel Prize, work

Claudia Goldin, an economist at Harvard, has won the Nobel Prize in Economics.…
Mapping Israel and Gaza attacks

Maps / Gaza, missile, New York Times

The New York Times is mapping rocket strikes, attacks, and ongoing conflict in…
News organizations blocking OpenAI

Data Sharing / news, OpenAI, scraping

Ben Welsh has a running list of the news organizations blocking OpenAI crawlers:…
Following the path of the 2024 solar eclipse

Maps / Andy Woodruff, eclipse

There is going to be a solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The…
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Anti-Aggregate

The Process / disaggregation

Look at individual data points separately and get more out of the small pictures.
Tree rings to compare life expectancy in your state

Infographics / mortality, Washington Post

The Washington Post goes with a tree ring metaphor to compare life expectancy…
Scale of Sports Fields and Courts

Data Underload / scale, sports

Here are the major sports drawn at the same scale to help appreciate the differences between field and court sizes.
Billion dollar natural disasters

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, budget, disaster, government

For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area…
Visual explanation of menstrual cycle length and variability

Infographics / menstrual cycle

For the Apple Women’s Health Study, which uses cycle tracking data from iPhones…
How Cause of Death Shifted with Age and Time in America

Data Underload / mortality

As we get older, our life expectancy declines. But when and how quickly the decline happens and how it happens has changed over the years.
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, September 2023 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Every month I collect tools and resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for September.
Search the text in historical maps

Maps / David Rumsey, search, text

The David Rumsey Map Collection has been home to tens of thousands of…
Loneliness, life satisfaction, and time

Infographics / alone, Alvin Chang, The Pudding, time use, well-being

For The Pudding, Alvin Chang examines loneliness through the lens of individual responses…
Two maps with the same scale

Maps / Josh Horowitz, scale

When you compare two areas on a single map, it can be a…

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