Nathan Yau

Breaking it down to the small steps and choices with data, code, and editing that lead to a finished chart.

For NYT’s the Upshot, Ronda Kaysen and Alicia Parlapiano highlight analysis by Patrick…

We mostly hear about a handful of swing states these days, as presidential…

You’re probably going to see election forecasts more this month, and one candidate…

For The New Yorker, Jay Caspian Kang relates the election’s unwavering randomness to…

The Pudding examines who gets shipped, which means a pairing of characters in…

For WP’s Department of Data, Kati Perry and Adrián Blanco examine campaign spending…

Based on rideshare data collected by Bloomberg, it appears that Uber and Lyft…

For The Guardian, statistician David Spiegelhalter describes three kinds of luck:

Circumstantial luck…

Given the topic and situation in Florida, I’m making this issue public. Hurricane Milton is en route.

NOAA has a viewer for their GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) system, which…

Hurricane Milton continues towards Florida, estimated to make landfall on October 9, 2024…

Short version: Members make FlowingData possible, and it’s a lot easier to support…

For The Washington Post, N. Kirkpatrick, Aaron Steckelberg, and Leslie Shapiro provide a…

Deaths by drug overdose in the United States increased sharply over the past…

In a follow-up to the 2020 project, Moritz Stefaner and Google Trends show…

In their ongoing series on fentanyl in the United States, Reuters illustrates the…

Chenxiao Guo, a PhD candidate in geography who goes by the name Atlas,…

As election day in the United States draws closer, the probabilities, odds, and forecasts are in full swing, which gives us a chance to check the ways in which we currently communicate the fuzzy numbers.