Nathan Yau

Finding illegal airstrips in Brazil

Maps / airstrip, flights, mining, New York Times

Using a combination of satellite imagery, crowdsourced databases, and analyses, The New York…
Indicators for a recession

Statistical Visualization / NBER, recession, Washington Post

People disagree whether the United States is in a recession or not, because…
Mapping extreme heat

Design / Bloomberg, climate, color, heat

For Bloomberg, Marie Patino reports on the shifting design choices for mapping weather…
Sequoia tree wildfire protection

Infographics / Reuters, sequoia, trees, wildfire

For Reuters, Travis Hartman, Ally J. Levine, and Anurag Rao describe the measures…
Mapping the cool spots in hot cities

Maps / Bloomberg, climate, cooling, heat

As city centers heat up, people search for cooler areas. For Bloomberg Green,…
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Focus Change

The Process / focus, highlight

A few lines and a color fill can change how others see a dataset.
Amtrak train route explorer

Maps / Amtrak, Rachel Binx, train

This visual explorer by Rachel Binx lets you see Amtrak routes and stations…
More friendships between rich and poor might mean less poverty

Statistical Visualization / economics, facebook, income, poverty, relationships, Upshot

Recently published in Nature, research by Chetty, R., Jackson, M.O., Kuchler, T. et…
Most notable person, everywhere in the world

Maps / people, Topi Tjukanov

Who is the most famous person born in the place you live? This…
Mapping how far you can travel by train in five hours, from any European station

Maps / Benjamin Td, train, travel

This European travel map by Benjamin Td shows how far you can travel…
Odds of winning the big Mega Millions prize

Statistics / lottery, probability, Washington Post

With tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot estimated at $1.28 billion, you might be wondering…
Data visualization(-ish) in the style of famous artists

Data Art / AI, DALL-E, OpenAI

DALL-E is an AI system from OpenAI that creates images from text. You…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, July 2022 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for July.
Housing displacement after disasters

Statistical Visualization / disaster, FEMA, housing, New York Times

Christopher Flavelle, for The New York Times, reported on the lack of support…
RStudio changes name to Posit

Software / name, Posit, R, RStudio

RStudio, the company behind the IDE of the same name, are changing their…
Revisiting data science, the career

Statistics / data science, Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Thomas Davenport and DJ Patil outlined a budding career choice called…
Pizza Exchange Rate

Data Underload / area, geometry, pizza

This is a story about pizza, geometry, and making sure you get what you paid for.
Florence Nightingale’s use of data visualization to persuade in the 19th century

Statistical Visualization / history, Nightingale, RJ Andrews, Scientific American

For Scientific American, RJ Andrews looks back at the visualization work of Florence…
A plea to stop climate change from the guy who makes maps

Maps / climate, color, humor, Washington Post

For Washington Post Opinion, a struggling mapmaker makes a plea to stop climate…
Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation

Statistical Visualization / Delaunay, explainer, Ian Henry

Delaunay triangulations have applications in computer graphics, spatial analysis, and visualization. They “maximize…

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