Nathan Yau

Some people point out that vaccinated people are still hospitalized as a defense…

Statisticians David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters for The Guardian on reframing risk estimates:…

What is the best french fry shape? Curly of course. But Chris Williams…

It’s a shift from answering “What is this data?” to “So what?”

While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…

Andrew Van Dam for The Washington Post used a bar chart with corrections…

Pitch Interactive and the Census 2020 Data Co-op, supported by the Google News…

David Leonhardt for The New York Times looked at the partisan gap for…

This is a fun map by Matt Dzugan. Search for a city, and…

We know the oceans are deep, but it’s difficult to grasp the scale…

Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…

A term to indicate that visual elements add nothing meaningful has itself become nonessential to making and discussing charts.

Palm oil is in our food, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, and biofuels, but it…

Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu for The Washington Post made a calculator that…

xkcd poked fun at the sometimes questionable color choices of researchers.…

Using Consumer Price Index, Alyssa Fowers and Rachel Siegel for The Washington Post…

All the tools are a product of visualization’s many uses, which isn’t so terrible. But not all the tools are champions.

Valentina D’Efilippo, Arpad Ray, and Duncan Geere visualized and sonified Covid-19 rates and…

Based on five years of data from EPA models, ProPublica mapped areas in…