Nathan Yau

Improved Relative Time, a comparison to many more things in the timeline

Infographics / baseline, Jonny Thaw, time

You’re familiar with AD and BC, but you probably haven’t heard of AiP…
23andMe files for bankruptcy

Data Sharing / 23andMe, ethics, privacy

23andMe, the business predicated on people sending cheek swabs to have their DNA…
Map of daylight gained in spring

Maps / Axios, daylight, Jacque Schrag, spring

Spring officially started last week here in the Northern Hemisphere. For Axios, Jacque…
Classic arcade game powered by Wikipedia edits

Infographics / game, Kevin Payravi, Wikipedia

What if the game Asteroids used Wikipedia edits to drive the volume and…
Student basketball transfers are really common

Statistical Visualization / basketball, college, transfer, Washington Post

For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Jesse Dougherty analyze the…
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Making of: When You Will Die

The Process / behind the scenes, mortality, simulation

This is how the mortality simulation machine gets made.
When You Will Die

Data Underload / mortality, simulation

With absolute certainty, you will die. When will it happen? That is a trickier question. But we can run simulations to explore the possibilities.
National history archived through chopstick sleeve designs

Design / Angie Wang, chopsticks, history, Japan, Letterform Archive

For Letterform Archive, designer Angie Wang examines a collection of chopstick sleeves as…
Animal sounds in different languages

Infographics / animals, Pudding, sound, Vivian Li

The purpose of onomatopoeia is to imitate sounds with words, so you might…
Top car brands in China, by market share

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, BYD, China, market share, Tesla

I like this chart set from Bloomberg that shows the top brands, ranked…
New York Times fills poll tracking gap left by FiveThirtyEight shutdown

Data Sources / data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, polling

FiveThirtyEight is gone, and along with its visualization-centric projects, so is their poll…
Projections for NCAA basketball tournament, winning chances for each team

Infographics / Athletic, basketball, NCAA, projections, tournament

Leading up to the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament, the Athletic has a bracket…
Testing citation skills and overconfidence of AI chatbots

Artificial Intelligence / accuracy, chatbot, citations, Columbia Journalism Review

When you enter a query in traditional search engines, you get a list…
Wall of receipts is wall of inconsistent records

Mistaken Data / DOGE, government, spending, Upshot

The “Department of Government Efficiency” keeps a “Wall of Receipts” to signal transparency…
Living 82-year-old Social Security recipient erroneously marked as dead

Mistaken Data / death, Seattle Times, Social Security

Pam Johnson got an email from her bank about her husband’s death. The…
Three-decades-old risk assessment used to decide prison release

Infographics / Civio, crime, prison, risk

In efforts to reduce repeat offenses in Spain thirty years ago, researchers developed…
AI system to revoke student visas

Artificial Intelligence / Axios, ethics, students, visa

For Axios, Marc Caputo reports:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an…
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Visualizing Differences Between Two Points in Time

The Process / difference

This week is about highlighting changes in data visually to make them glaringly obvious.
Instead of lying with data, just delete it altogether

Data Sharing / government, takedown, transparency, Washington Post

Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, for Washington Post Opinion, highlight the current strategies…
Clocking out of work earlier

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, time, work

According to data from ActivTrak, people are shortening their work days with higher…

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