Nathan Yau

Cumulative 3-pointers for the Splash Brothers

Statistical Visualization / basketball, Upshot, Warriors

Tonight is game six of the NBA Finals. If the Golden State Warriors…
Communicating risk in the context of daily living

Statistics / context, risk, Wayne Oldford

Wayne Oldford, a statistics professor at the University of Waterloo, explains risk in…
Hands-On Data Visualization, an open-access book on interactive visualization for beginners

Statistical Visualization / book, interaction

Hands-On Data Visualization, by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou, is an open-access book…
Unreliable FBI crime data

Mistaken Data / Axios, crime, FBI, Marshall Project

The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…
Different languages, but similar information rates

Statistical Visualization / information, language, words

Christophe Coupé and company analyzed speech rate (on the left) across different languages,…
Map of closest airports everywhere

Maps / airports

This fun interactive map by William B. Davis shows you the ten closest…
Browser share over time

Statistical Visualization / browser

James Eagle used an animated donut chart to show browser share from 1996…
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Using Absolute vs. Relative Scales

The Process / absolute, relative, scale

The key is assigning an appropriate amount of weight, statistically and visually, for comparisons that make sense.
History of heat records in major U.S. cities

Statistical Visualization / climate change, Pudding

Matt Daniels and Russell Goldenberg for The Pudding are tracking heat records in…
Garbage in space

Infographics / Financial Times, garbage, space

There are thousands of satellites that orbit Earth, with about half of them…
Maps of noise

Maps / Karim Douïeb, noise, pollution

Karim Douïeb, in collaboration with Possible, mapped noise in Paris, New York, and…
Commonness of Divorce in America

Data Underload / divorce, marriage

I wondered how common it is for someone to get a divorce. While I’ve touched on the topic before, I’ve never calculated it directly, so I gave it a go.
Time splits from a visualization freelancer

Self-surveillance / Eli Holder, freelancing, time use, work

Eli Holder shows how he split his freelance time across various projects and…
Cancer and statistics

Statistics / cancer, Hannah Fry, Numberphile, risk

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Hannah Fry works with statistics and risk, but her perspective…
Calculating the new cost of your summer road trip

Infographics / gas, spending, Washington Post

With gas prices a lot higher than usual, Júlia Ledur, Leslie Shapiro, and…
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Three Questions to Visualize Data Effectively

The Process / questions

Answer the questions. Produce more focused and useful charts.
Examination of songs after virality on TikTok

Infographics / music, Pudding, TikTok, viral, Vox

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Vox, in collaboration with The Pudding, looked at what happens…
Catching students cheating with R

Statistics / cheating, Matthew Crump, R, teaching

Matthew Crump, a psychology professor who discovered high volume cheating in his class…
Cost of breastfeeding, seen in self-tracked data

Self-surveillance / breastfeeding, time use, Washington Post

There are baby formula shortages in the United States. A criticism from some…
Interest levels for political issues mapped

Maps / Axios, election, Google, politics

To estimate public interest in the many political issues across the United States,…

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