Nathan Yau

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…

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We know the oceans are deep, but it’s…

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.

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Valentina D’Efilippo, Arpad Ray, and Duncan Geere visualized…

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

If you’ve taken classes that cover image processing, you’ve likely come across the…

The USDA recommends that you cook your chicken to at least 165°F to…

The IEEE VIS 2021 conference is running virtually this week, and there’s a…