Nathan Yau

When charts attack

Miscellaneous / advertisement, Invesco

Don’t you just hate it when you’re pleasantly driving around in the city…
Mental disorder graphics

Infographics / health, mental, minimalism

Designer Patrick Smith has a minimalist look at mental disorders:
I was doing…
Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance

Coding / dance, nerd, sorting

We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see…
Sugar consumption buckets

Infographics / nytimes, photo, sugar

Lovely imagery showing sugar consumption for day through lifetime. The average American consumes…
Challenge: Spot the mistakes in the figures

Discussion / garbage, government, mistakes

During production of the 2011 USAID annual letter from Rajiv Shah, someone said…
Rings of population change by block

Maps / census, population

You’ve seen population changes at the state and county level, but with Census…
Recession and rise in antidepressant prescriptions

Statistics / antidepressants, journalism, recession

Over the past four years there was a 43 percent increase in prescriptions…
The city in real-time

Maps / MIT, sensors, Singapore

The MIT SENSEable City Lab presents five different perspectives of the ebb and…
Statistical significance on xkcd

Miscellaneous / humor, xkcd

It’s xkcd on statistical significance. I need to stop eating all those green…
Star Trek characters in pixel form

Miscellaneous / humor, pixels, Trekkies

John Martz, in collaboration with Koyama Press, pixelates 235 Star Trek characters in…
Statistics is the sexiest subject around. And information design.

News / design, information, nytimes

Natasha Singer for The New York Times starts the article on visualization and…
Who spends the most years in retirement?

Data Underload / life expectancy, OECD, retirement, world

Early retirement. That’s what most people want, unless you’re lucky enough to love…
Beauty of Maps available in its entirety

Maps / BBC, documentary

Almost a year ago, the BBC aired the Beauty of Maps, but we…
Movies with multiple Harry Potter wizards

Network Visualization / movies, Potter

I feel like whenever I watch a British film, I see a Harry…
Thoughts on end of Data.gov

Statistics / Data.gov, government, quicklink

In a guest post for the guardian.co.uk Datablog, I thought out loud about…
Physically climb over budget data with Kinect

Visualization / budget, challenge, Kinect

As an entry to the Eyebeam DataVizChallenge to visualize your taxes, Budget Climb…
More proportions and cocktails

Infographics / cocktails, poster

Designers’ current obsession with cocktails and proportions continues with Konstantin Datz’ recent poster.…
In land of YouTube dislikes, Justin Bieber rules

Data Underload / April Fool's, dislikes, flowingdata, YouTube

Happy Friday, everyone. If you’ll allow me, I’d like to take a moment…
Taming the breath of a wok

Infographics / cooking, food, wok

I found this on Serious Eats, but it looks like it’s from a…
Data.gov and other transparency sites to be shut down due to budget cuts

Data Sources / government, transparency

Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…

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