Nathan Yau

Limited progress towards a plan for planting 1 trillion trees

Infographics / Bloomberg, Marc Benioff, scale, trees

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, set out to plant and conserve 1…
Welcome to the future of data reporting, in musical format

Maps / AI, generative, listicle, storytelling, TikTok

The TikTok account Globetrots combines Google Earth and text-to-speech to show top-ten lists…
How Much We Work

Data Underload / time use, work

In our younger years, we have school and more important things to do, but then we get older and there are bills to pay.
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From Data to Finished Graphics

The Process / steps

Knowing what’s next can help you work through a tedious step, because you know it’ll be worth it.
xkcd: Alphabetical cartogram

Maps / humor, xkcd

A deeply insightful map from xkcd.
See also: 19 maps that will blow…
Counts for pro-Palestinian college protests increasing

Infographics / college, protest, Washington Post

Based on estimates from the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Washington Post shows the…
Map of NHL player birth places

Maps / birth, NHL

Reddit user ChangsManagement mapped where NHL hockey players were born, based on data…
The Nature of Code, refreshed

Coding / Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman, who you might know from his enthusiastic YouTube channel The Coding…
Flipbook drawn by strangers on the internet

Infographics / drawing, Pudding

The Pudding ran an experiment that asked people to trace a shape. They…
Plastics banned in Hong Kong in an effort to reduce waste, scale

Visualization / garbage, plastic, scale, South China Morning Post

Hong Kong banned single-use plastics often used for food takeaway containers. For South…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, April 2024 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here are the useful tools and resources that came out of April.
Rise in prison death rates during the pandemic

Statistical Visualization / Marshall Project, mortality, pandemic

The Marshall Project highlights research on excess mortality in U.S. prisons:
The slowdown…
Who is Sleeping, by Age and Time

Data Underload / sleep, time use

Sleepy time varies as responsibilities shift.
Climate change in your lifetime and the next

Infographics / climate change, future, Tardigrade

One of the challenges of understanding the weight of climate change is that…
Israel uses Iron Dome as defense against rockets

Infographics / defense, Israel, missile, Reuters

Using a series of graphics, Reuters explains Israel’s defense against rockets, also known…
Existing mortgages with lower rates than new ones

Statistical Visualization / mortgage, Upshot

For The Upshot, Emily Badger and Francesca Paris compare the rates of existing…
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Chart Options When the Differences are Small But Worthwhile

The Process / change, difference, options, small

Small changes over time or small differences between categories can easily look insignificant, even if they’re worth noting in real life. Here are chart options for you.
Sleep Hours and Feeling Rested

Data Underload / rest, sleep

Two-thirds of adults get at least 7 hours of sleep. I am not in that two-thirds.
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How to Make a Cartogram with Packed Circles in R

Tutorials / R

There are packages to make cartograms, but in some cases you might need a more flexible solution.
What happened to Japantown in San Francisco when residents were forced out by executive order

Maps / census, Japantown, racism, San Francisco Chronicle

In 1942, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mandated that those of Japanese descent be sent…

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