Nathan Yau

Declining groundwater

Maps / New York Times, water

The New York Times analyzed water levels across the country since 1920. In…
Looking for the best pizza for different styles in different places

Maps / pizza, Washington Post, Yelp

Locating the best pizza depends on where you are and what kind of…
Clock plays a song with the current time in its title

Infographics / clock, Pudding, Russell Samora, song

For The Pudding, Russell Samora pulled songs via the Spotify API and made…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, August 2023 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for August.
When the Cost of a Mortgage is a Multiple of the Original Loan

Data Underload / mortgage, spending

Use this chart to see how many times over you’ll pay over the original loan amount, given the annual rate and the number of years of paying.
Turn a static SVG into an interactive one, with Flourish

Apps / Flourish, illustration, SVG

It’s straightforward to share a static SVG online, but maybe you want tooltips…
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How I Made That: Network Diagrams of All the Household Types

How I Made That / Illustrator, Python, R

Process the data into a usable format, which makes the visualization part more straightforward.
Apple’s global suppliers

Maps / Apple, Bloomberg, China, suppy

Most of Apple’s suppliers and manufacturing happen outside the United States and in…
Infinity abstractions

Infographics / Dea Bankova, infinite, math

Infinity is an abstraction of endlessness, which seems to suggest that it cannot…
Renting vs. Owning a Home, by State

Data Underload / households, rent

Among households in the United States, 68% are owned and 32% are rented, based on estimates from the American Community Survey in 2021. That breakdown isn’t uniform across the country though.
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Visualization Integration

The Process / tools

If you want to maximize fun, a mixed toolbox is still best.
Explorable explanation for matrix transformations

Infographics / math, matrix, Yi Zhe Ang

Instead of using a bunch of equations to memorize, Yi Zhe Ang visually…
Python is coming to Excel

Software / Excel, Python

Excel is getting a bump in capabilities with Python integration. From Microsoft:
Excel…
Using cold lake water to cool buildings

Infographics / cooling, Washington Post

There are buildings in Toronto, Canada that make use of a deep lake…
Passenger planes flying too close

Infographics / flights, New York Times

Sometimes passenger planes get a little too close to each other on takeoff…
xkcd: Pairwise matrix of what to do in an emergency

Infographics / humor, xkcd

xkcd has an informative reference for what do in case of mountain lion…
Visual breakdowns of iconic hip-hop samples

Statistical Visualization / hip-hop, music, sampling, Tracklib

Hip-hop music producers often sample from previous works. They remake, restructure, and repurpose…
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Chart Options for When Time Data Has Uneven Gaps

The Process / gaps, options, time series

Visualizing time series data often assumes that your data points are evenly spaced over time, which is not always the case.
Hip-hop’s influence on the English language

Infographics / hip-hop, language, music, New York Times, vernacular

For The New York Times, Miles Marshall Lewis highlights the etymology of five…
Shifting towards more hot days, fewer cold days

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, global warming

It keeps getting hotter around the world. Not every single day. But over…

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