Nathan Yau

Barbie and Oppenheimer themes for charts in R

Software / Barbie, ggplot, Matthew Jané, Oppenheimer, R, theme

Matthew Jané made a small R package called Theme Park, which is meant…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, July 2023 Roundup

The Process / roundup

This is the good stuff for July.
Racing amateurs against Tour de France cyclists

Maps / cycling, speed, Strava, Tour de France, Upshot

It takes strength and dedication to race in the Tour de France. It’s…
John Snow’s cholera map, an animated version

Maps / animation, cholera, John Snow, Sarah Bell

Sarah Bell made an animated version of John Snow’s classic map from 1854.…
When is Dinner, by State

Data Underload / dinner, time use

These are the states that eat dinner the earliest and latest, along with everyone else in between.
Increasing alcohol-related deaths

Maps / alcohol, mortality, Washington Post

Alcohol consumption, based on ethanol volume estimates, has been rising over the past…
A race to find the best route to the Jersey Shore

Maps / commute, Philadelphia Inquirer, racing

To find the fastest route from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore, The Philadelphia…
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Mundane Data Stories

The Process / mundane, patterns

A bunch of boring data points makes a pattern.
Understanding the SVG path element, a visual guide

Coding / Nanda Syahrasyad, paths, SVG

The SVG path element can be useful for drawing regular and irregular shapes.…
What Americans drink and their changing habits

Statistical Visualization / beverages, USAFacts

When I was a kid, I drank a lot of milk, and bottled…
Manual data labeling behind the AI

Statistics / AI, Bloomberg, ethics, Google

One of the things that makes AI seem neat is that it sometimes…
Age shifts around the world

Statistical Visualization / age, New York Times, population, world

The world is getting older overall. For The New York Times, Lauren Leatherby…
Flowchart showing the splits, mergers, and acquisitions of the former Bell Telephone Company

Infographics / AT&T, Bell System, Verizon, Wall Street Journal

Bell System’s monopoly broke up in 1984 leading to independent phone companies, which…
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When I Switched Visualization Tools

The Process / tools

With all the new tools available, maybe it’s time to add to the existing toolset.
Outsourced work and generative AI

Statistics / AI, generative, illustration, Rest of World, work

For Rest of World, Andrew Deck turned the AI focus on outsourced workers,…
A rubber stamp for graph axes

Statistical Visualization / axes, physical, stamp

For graphing on the go, Present & Correct offers a rubber stamp with…
Introduction to statistical learning, with Python examples

Statistics / book, learning, Python

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela…
Wimbledon grass patterns

Infographics / grass, Reuters, tennis, Wimbledon

This might surprise you, but the grass at the Wimbledon tennis tournament is…
Focusing on the majority of students not affected by affirmative action

Statistical Visualization / affirmative action, education, New York Times

For NYT Opinion, Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens, with graphics by Quoctrung…
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Learning to Use One Visualization Tool Really Well

The Process / thinking, tools

There are many tools, which makes it tempting to learn them all. Instead, learn one tool really well and the logic carries over to the others.

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