Nathan Yau

Backyard bird sounds

Infographics / Alex Tomlinson, birds, sound

Alex Tomlinson illustrated backyard sounds of a cardinal, goldfinch, blue jay, mourning dove,…
Fireworks-related emergency department visits

Data Underload / emergency room, fireworks, July 4

You might be surprised that the combination of beer and fireworks doesn’t always work out.
FlowingData enters adulthood at 18

Site News / birthday

Last week marked 18 years of FlowingData.
That seems like a long time,…
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Questions to visual answers

The Process / questions

One of the best and most direct ways to visualize data with clarity is to ask questions and answer with data.
Types of deadlines illustrated from beginning to end

Infographics / deadline, Harriet Hand, illustration, Keri Facer

Some deadlines come unexpected, some come staggered, and some come on a fixed…
Rating all the U.S. airports

Maps / airports, ranking, Washington Post

There are great airports and there are really bad ones. Which one you…
Table for science-backed vaccine recommendations

Infographics / CDC, science, Scientific American, vaccination

Jen Christiansen and Meghan Bartels provide a quick reference for Scientific American:
Kennedy’s…
AI slop on Last Week Tonight

Artificial Intelligence / Last Week Tonight, slop

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver digs into AI slop. It’s the fake…
When a woman’s cycle stops

Infographics / period, Reuters

Many women lose their period while still of reproductive age. For Reuters, Daisy…
Overview of the GOP bill, a bar chart

Statistical Visualization / bill, taxes, Washington Post

The Washington Post starts with a bar chart to show the major changes…
Cost and savings for each item in the GOP bill

Infographics / bill, Medicaid, taxes, Upshot

NYT’s the Upshot has a running list of the items in the bill…
Effects of the Republican bill on your taxes

Infographics / bill, profiles, taxes, Washington Post

The tax bill, that seems to be on its way to passing, will…
Illustrated fears about AI-generated art

Artificial Intelligence / Christoph Niemann, generative, New York Times

Artist Christoph Niemann chimed in for the New York Times about his complicated…
Harvard’s $2.6b of grants canceled by the government

Statistical Visualization / funding, government, Harvard, Upshot

For NYT’s the Upshot, Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia, and Ethan Singer accounted for…
Matching potential partners based on browser history

Statistics / browser, dating, Dries Depoorter

Ideally, your romantic partner for life has similar interests, hopes, dreams, and browsing…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2025 Roundup

The Process / roundup

This is the good stuff for June: tools to use, datasets to analyze, and resources to learn from.
Weather displayed as vintage 1990s forecast on the Weather Channel

Infographics / Michael Battaglia, vintage, weather

There was a time when you tuned in to the Weather Channel on…
Rubin Observatory releases first imagery of the night sky at enormous scale

Maps / Rubin Observatory, space

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the National Science Foundation and…
Depth of bunker-buster bombs

Infographics / bomb, New York Times, scale

To show how deep bunker-buster bombs penetrate the ground, the New York…
Autism definition changed, which led to rise in diagnoses

Statistics / Allen Frances, autism, New York Times, vaccination

Allen Frances, a psychiatrist who chaired the group to update the Diagnostic and…

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