Nathan Yau

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…
Fewer honking complaints after congestion pricing

Statistical Visualization / complaints, congestion, honking, The City

This might come as a surprise to some, but since congestion pricing in…
Everyday life changes after Covid

Statistical Visualization / Covid, Upshot

In almost every dataset about life and people that stretches back past March…
Political typology quiz

Statistics / Pew Research, politics, quiz

From Pew Research, this political typology quiz is from four years ago but…
Less sense of belonging, in middle school

Infographics / Alvin Chang, belonging, education, Pudding, students

Alvin Chang, for the Pudding, highlights education research on the awkwardness of middle…
Access FiveThirtyEight resources while they’re still around

Data Sources / data journalism, FiveThirtyEight, teaching

Last week, Disney laid off FiveThirtyEight employees and announced the site would cease…
Charted history of the baby boom

Statistical Visualization / baby boomer, birth rate, Our World in Data

For Our World in Data, Saloni Dattani and Lucas Rodés-Guirao analyzed the various…
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Smell Test for Data

The Process / expectations, formatting, missing data, outlier

The first part of visualizing data usefully is making sure the data you’re working with is not terrible.
$38b of government money that funded Musk companies

Statistical Visualization / Elon Musk, government, spending, Washington Post

Elon Musk has been critical of government spending, as he and DOGE fire…

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