Nathan Yau

Occupations with the highest divorce rates

Data Underload / divorce, work

Some jobs tend towards higher divorce rates and some lower.
State healthcare sites sending data to tech companies

Data Sharing / Bloomberg, government, privacy

For Bloomberg, Tanaz Meghjani, Dhruv Mehrotra, and Surya Mattu report sharing of private…
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Restraint in the visualization process

The Process / constraints

This week is about constraints.
Visualizing history within a grid

Infographics / grid, Public Domain Review

For the Public Domain Review, Hunter Dukes and Adam Green visit Antoni Jażwiński’s…
Increasing costs in the beef supply chain

Infographics / beef, Bloomberg, cost, inflation, supply

Beef prices keep going up a noticeable amount in grocery stores. For Bloomberg,…
Cartographers review movie maps

Maps / cartography, fiction, movies

John Nelson and Peter Atwood review maps that appeared in movies, such as…
Estimating how much text on the internet is generated

Artificial Intelligence / generative, Internet Archive, text

Researchers analyzed newly published websites from 2022 through mid-2025 to estimate what percentage…
Past job transformations, because of technology

Artificial Intelligence / Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch, technology, work

It seems every day the chances that AI transforms work trends towards certain.…
EVs getting cheaper to go farther

Statistical Visualization / cost, electric vehicle, Francesca Paris, Upshot

The cost of an electrical vehicle used to increase quickly as you shopped…
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Visualization tools and resources, April 2026 roundup

The Process / roundup

Every month I collect tools, datasets, and resources to help you make more useful data things. Here is what happened in April.
Masterclass in misleading charts

Mistaken Data / climate change, Hank Green, misleading

Hank Green dissects a video that argues against climate change. The video in…
Writing style as your digital fingerprint

Artificial Intelligence / chatbot, Megan McArdle, privacy, Washington Post

Apparently, the words we use and how we structure our sentences in writing…
Asia is a lot more excited about AI than the U.S. is

Artificial Intelligence / country, excitement, Rest of World

For Rest of World, Rina Chandran reports on the big difference in excitement:…
Ethics in the way of scale

Artificial Intelligence / ethics, New York Times, Paul Ford

For NYT Opinion, Paul Ford on the challenges for AI companies to build…
Build a British voter

Infographics / Economist, election, voting

The Economist shows probabilities that a person votes for each party, given a…
Penguin relationship diagrams at the aquarium

Network Visualization / Kyoto Acquarium, penguin, relationships

The Kyoto Aquarium in Kyoto and the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo each have…
Estimating damage to civilian areas in Iran

Infographics / Bloomberg, damage, Iran, satellite imagery, war

Even if only military areas are targeted, civilian and commercial structures are also…
Lower fertility, probably delayed

Statistical Visualization / Claire Cain Miller, fertility, Upshot

Lower fertility is typically pitched as a bad thing, but it can be…
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Worthless overlay of information

The Process / broadcast, overlay, sports

This week we highlight an overlay that obscures the useful bits and helps no one.
Mechanics of GPS

Infographics / GPS, PerThirtySix, satellites, Shri Khalpada

Shri Khalpada of PerThirtySix explains how GPS works using a set of small…

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