Nathan Yau

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Debating About Visualization – The Process 172

The Process / audience, critique, debate

The discussions this week felt familiar. Probably because we’ve seen this many times, since the beginning of charts themselves.
New shopping search patterns from the pandemic

Statistical Visualization / Google, search, shopping

Schema Design, Google Trends, and Axios collaborated on The New Normal, looking at…
All-time temperature records broken in 2021

Maps / climate change, New York Times, temperature

Using data from NOAA, Krishna Karra and Tim Wallace for The New York…
Settling all the internet debates in one go with a bunch of polling

Statistical Visualization / debate, Internet, Neal Agarwal

The internet was once this fun place where people had goofy debates about…
Play miniature golf, learn about congressional redistricting

Infographics / game, gerrymandering, golf, redistricting, Washington Post

Congressional redistricting and gerrymandering are important topics, because they can directly change election…
Scale of the bigger, more detailed universe

Infographics / BBC, scale, space

We’ve learned more about the universe since Charles and Ray Eames produced Powers…
Powers of Ten

Infographics / Eames, scale, video

The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames from 1977 shows the…
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A Quick and Easy Way to Make Spiral Charts in R

Tutorials / R

Now that we’ve discovered another way to annoy chart snobs, here’s how you can make your own spirals.
Spiral graph to show Covid-19 cases

Infographics / coronavirus, New York Times

This spiralized chart by Gus Wezerek and Sara Chodosh for NYT Opinion has…
Four decades of oceanic wave moments, as a surfing game

Infographics / Andy Bergmann, NOAA

Surf is a data-based game by Andy Bergmann that lets you move across…
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Finding New Visualization Tools for a New Point of View – The Process 171

The Process / perspective, tools

It’s time to bask in the joys of knowing nothing again.
Scale of black holes

Infographics / black hole, Kurzgesagt, scale, space

I’m not sure there’s any way to really understand the scale of the…
Drop rain anywhere in the world and see where it ends up

Maps / rain, river, Sam Learner, water

One of my favorites of the year, Sam Learner’s River Runner shows you…
Analysis of Facebook groups before January 6

Statistics / facebook, insurrection, machine learning, ProPublica, Washington Post

The Washington Post and ProPublica analyzed Facebook group posts that disputed election results:…
What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us

Statistics / coronavirus, NPR, omicron

May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on…
False positives with prenatal tests for rare conditions

Statistical Visualization / prenatal, testing, uncertainty, Upshot

Sarah Kliff and Aatish Bhatia for NYT’s The Upshot look at the uncertainty…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2021

Visualization / best-of

I looked back and picked my favorite projects for 2021. It was a long year.
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Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2021 Roundup

The Process / roundup

In the last roundup of 2021, here’s the good stuff for December.
Church of the 95% Confidence Interval

Statistics / church, humor

This is Hallgrímskirkja, a church in Reykjavík, Iceland. It will now also be…
David Rumsey Map Center, cataloging historical works

Maps / David Rumsey, history, San Francisco Chronicle

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…

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