Nathan Yau

Visualization tends towards familiarity and convenience, which is useful for getting things done and reading data quickly. But the familiar is also less fun and can be stifling.

I talked to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic about my early motivations, FD origins, the…

Stamen, whose design breakdowns I always appreciate, discusses why they took a different…

Ren Yuan visualized the GitHub commit history for the PyTorch library. The virtual…

During the Dallas Stars away games during this year’s NHL playoffs, fans could…

Dr Pepper steadily rose and Pepsi steadily declined over the past couple of…

Sometimes the noise in a dataset makes it hard to see the worthwhile patterns when you visualize it. Here are chart options for you.

For NYT, Sam Anderson, with illustrations by Gaia Alari, tells the story of…

Currently is a prototype ambient display that shows where your energy comes from.…

The Painted Ladies houses, which includes the house from the 1990s sitcom Full…

A Wheel of Fortune contestant employed strategies outlined in a NYT Upshot analysis…

There might be times when you want to visualize data with area, but…

Here’s the good stuff for the month.

I had a chat with Jon Schwabish on The PolicyViz Podcast. We talked…

Teresa Ibarra used Facebook Messenger to text with her now ex-boyfriend almost a…

The second edition of Visualize This is published. The book made its way…

Last week, a Singapore Airlines flight experienced turbulence that led to one person…

YouGov surveyed 2,000 adults asking them when was the best and worst decades…

In case you need a large dataset to train your chatbot — and…