Nathan Yau

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

It’s better to err on the side of obvious than leave things ambiguous.

Speaking of the heat wave in Europe, Pierre Breteau for Le Monde charted…

Many European countries are experience record high temperatures, so The Washington Post used…

There’s a database of feathers called Featherbase, because of course there is:
Featherbase…

Researchers are studying the electrical rhythms in plant cells. I’m not sure what…

Emily Badger and Eve Washington for NYT’s The Upshot show how the housing…

Given the current restrictions in the U.S., Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma…

As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…

The NRA Children’s Museum from Change the Ref is a mile-long convoy of…

While some parts of visualization are formulaic, outside variables require that you adjust.

There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Get twenty-two…

The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…

You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…

NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…

The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…

From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…

Use visual metaphors to shorten the distance between data and what it represents.

Income distribution continues to stretch on the high end and squish on the…

You’ve probably heard of the trolley problem, a thought experiment that imagines a…