Nathan Yau

For A Rabbit’s Foot, Andy Hazel interviewed Star Wars creator George Lucas, mostly…

The Washington Post used satellite imagery, photos, and videos from when the blue…

This week, I provide an update on my own process from start to finish, in 2026.

If you’re into visualizing networks, cosmos.gl looks like a fun library to play…

MapTap is a daily guessing game for geography. You get a location in…

AI Compass is a quiz of thirty questions that asks for your opinion…

The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning…

Alexander Bogachev is making animated data portraits for each match:
A football match…

Care of Fox 8 in New Orleans, a baseline just below 92 degrees…

Roberto Serrano, a Brown University economics professor, gave a take-home midterm and it…

This week, a bar chart was the wrong choice.

Netflix shows tend to draw a lot of viewers in the first season…

For dumb reasons, there are people in power who like to put down…

Throughout NBA basketball history, there are many what-ifs and fan-forced asterisks for championships…

Fun stacked area chart by Todd Whitehead for Sportradar, showing the share of…

Oil companies have funded research for decades to figure out how to store…

National parks are increasingly crowded, which kind of detracts from the peaceful wilderness…

Seán Doran stringed together time-lapse photos from the International Space Station and interpolated…

This week, a framework of AI agents enter the game to automate all the steps of data to charts to insight. We’re not cooked, yet.

Dries Depoorter makes the “burning money” metaphor more literal with a tick-marked candle…