Nathan Yau

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…
Every hour tracked, for five years

Self-surveillance / everyday

In the department of tedious and thorough, Reddit user _tsweezy_ tracked every hour…
When Americans Are Happiest

Data Underload / happiness, time use, well-being

What people are doing when they are happy and not, from age 20 to 70.
Animal extinction over time

Statistical Visualization / animals, extinction, Reuters

Animals are going extinct at a faster rate. Reuters shows a developing pattern…
Names that are more dog or more human

Statistical Visualization / dogs, names, Washington Post

There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa…
Mapping the sea floor

Maps / Jon Keegan, nature, ocean, USGS

Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, December 2022 Roundup

The Process / roundup

The year’s almost up, so let’s get right into it. Here’s the good stuff for December.
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2022

Visualization / best-of

Every year, I pick my favorite data visualization projects, which tend to cover a wide range of purposes but are typically for presentation. Here are my favorites for 2022.

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