Nathan Yau

While some parts of visualization are formulaic, outside variables require that you adjust.

There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Get twenty-two…

The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…

You’ve probably seen the moving bubbles that show how something changes over time.…

NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…

The United States Department of Agriculture provides annual inventory data on livestock, crops,…

From the listener perspective, we pay our monthly or annual fees and just…

Use visual metaphors to shorten the distance between data and what it represents.

Income distribution continues to stretch on the high end and squish on the…

You’ve probably heard of the trolley problem, a thought experiment that imagines a…

By purchasing certain foods, we make decisions about the carbon footprint from the…

It’s Independence Day here in the United States, which means there will be…

As you know, Reddit is typically a sophisticated place of kind and pleasant…

Here’s the good stuff for June.

The Office for National Statistics for the UK published an interactive to show…

This past weekend marked 15 years since I first posted on FlowingData. What…

Visualising Knowledge is an open book from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, based…

An Introduction to Statistical Learning, by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, and…

Felix Krause tracks many metrics of his life, both manually and passively, and…

For The New York Times, Larry Buchanan and Lauren Leatherby used Sankey diagrams…