Nathan Yau

From the outsider point of view, a path towards collision might seem obvious,…

How do we visualize the data that isn’t there or new estimates that arise when methodology changes?

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

After a gulf rename, I got to browsing some historical maps. Jacques Nicolas…

Cartoonist Becky Barnicoat illustrates the passing of time over a year. Seems right:…

While government data remains in limbo, for Slate, Lizzie O’Leary highlights the sectors…

The “Department of Government Efficiency” wants to cut $2 trillion from the federal…

You can use the Internet Archive to access historical versions, but GovWayback makes…

The Gulf of Mexico has been renamed to the Gulf of America in…

I missed this one last week, pre-Super Bowl, but for The Washington Post,…

Hank Azaria, who does the voices for many characters on The Simpsons, wrote…

Messing with how emojis are encoded, Paul Butler demonstrates how one might hide…

To contain the fires in Los Angeles, aircraft flew back and forth to…

According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, about 65,000 federal workers have…

The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab is archiving Data.gov and making the…

This week, I have a new tutorial for you and then we get into using data with baggage.

About 1 in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN, based on an…

The Hamilton Project is tracking federal expenditures and updating daily:
This data interactive…

The data portal for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was…

As of this evening on February 4, 2025, the TIGER/Line shapefiles, which provide…