Nathan Yau

Misuse of the rainbow color scheme to visualize scientific data

Design / color, nature, rainbow, science

Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of…
Cinematic visualization

Design / 3-D, cinematic, narrative, research

Using the third dimension in visualization can be tricky because of rendering, perception,…
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How to Animate Packed Circles in R

Tutorials / animation, R

Pack circles, figure out the transitions between time segments, and then generate frames to string together.
Mass shootings calendar

Infographics / Monterey Park, shootings, Washington Post

A shooting in Monterey Park, California on Lunar New Year’s eve left 11…
Unreturned Native American remains, mapped

Maps / history, Native American, ProPublica

A law was passed in 1990 that allowed Native American tribes to request…
Mixed Feelings of Happiness and Meaning

Data Underload / time use, well-being

Happiness and meaning do not always travel together. Sometimes we need to pursue meaning without the happiness, and vice versa.
Meaning of the Chinese New Year meal

Infographics / Lunar New Year, Taiwan Data Stories

In celebration of Chinese New Year, Julia Janicki, Daisy Chung, and Joyce Chou…
Reservoir refills in California

Statistical Visualization / California, drought, New York Times, rain

There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to…
Manual removal of harmful text to train AI models

Statistics / AI, cleaning, ethics, OpenAI, Sama

AI training data comes from the internet, and as we know but maybe…
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More Noise, Better Signal

The Process / noise, uncertainty

Sometimes the noise, something we often try to minimize in data, makes for a better signal.
Barely a map of the west coast

Maps / coastline, Peter Gorman

Barely Maps is an ongoing project by Peter Gorman that shows geographic data…
Scrolly video JavaScript library

Coding / JavaScript, scrollytelling, video

ScrollyVideo.js is a JavaScript library that makes it easier to incorporate videos in…
Snow cover mapped using snowflakes

Maps / Althea Archer, R, snow, USGS

To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
Tracking hundreds of pizza slices

Self-surveillance / Liam Quigley, pizza

For eight years, Liam Quigley tracked every slice of pizza he ate in…
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Alternative Ways to Represent Data

The Process / senses

We’ve seen data in many forms, but we should dig deeper into using our other senses.
Happiness and Meaning in What We Do

Data Underload / time use, well-being

There are things that make us happy. There are things where we find meaning in the everyday. What are the things that give us both?
Origins of the world map

Maps / history, Jeremy Shuback

Mapping the entire planet is not exactly a straightforward thing to do, especially…
Tom Brady of other jobs

Statistical Visualization / age, Tom Brady, Upshot, work

Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is 45 years old,…
Bias in AI-generated images

Mistaken Data / AI, bias, images, Lensa, MIT Technology Review, Stable Diffusion

Lensa is an app that lets you retouch photos, and it recently added…
Generative AI trade-offs

Statistics / AI, ethics, generative art, Maggie Appleton

People have been having fun with generative AI lately. Enter a prompt and…

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