Nathan Yau

Steer through the Suez Canal

Maps / CNN, game, Suez Canal

To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the…
Analysis of color names used with makeup

Infographics / color, makeup, Pudding

For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and…
What if a giant banana was orbiting Earth

Infographics / banana, humor, scale, space

yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same…
The Data Journalism Handbook

Statistics / book, data journalism

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, March 2021 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for March 2021.
Income in Each State, Adjusted for Cost of Living

Data Underload / income, work

A dollar might not buy you as much in one state as it does in the other.
Which color scale to use for your charts

Design / color, Datawrapper, Lisa Charlotte Rost

On a superficial level, color scale selection seems like a straightforward task. Pick…
Teaching statistical models with wine tasting

Statistics / modeling, Pudding, wine

For The Pudding, Lars Verspohl provides an introduction to statistical models disguised as…
Statistical limits

Statistics / Hannah Fry, limitations

Reviewing Deborah Stone’s Counting and Tim Harford’s The Data Detective, Hannah Fry discusses…
Inadequate hate crime statistics

Statistics / crime, hate, police, ProPublica

For ProPublica, Ken Schwencke reports on a poor data system that relies on…
Career Timelines for Every Basketball Player Who Has Played an NBA Game

Data Underload / basketball, trading

I was curious who played for a single team over their entire career, who skipped around, and how the patterns changed over the decades.
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Maybe All Charts are Bad – The Process 131

The Process / bad chart, misleading

But probably not.
Mapping all of the voters

Maps / election, segregation, Upshot

In what seems to have become a trend of making more and more…
Rising number of anti-Asian attacks

Statistics / Asian, racism

Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State…
Evolution of Chinese names

Infographics / Chinese, Isabella Chua, names

For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…
Analysis of skin tones in beauty ads on Instagram

Statistical Visualization / ads, diversity, fashion, Instagram, Quartz

For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk and Marc Bain analyzed skin tones that appeared in…
Pandemic timeline as animated dot density map

Maps / animation, coronavirus, pandemic, timeline, Washington Post

As a lead-in and backdrop to a timeline of the past year by…
Facebook feed comparison between groups

Infographics / comparison, facebook, feed, The Markup

As part of their Citizen Browser project to inspect Facebook, The Markup shows…
Average stimulus aid, by household size and income

Statistical Visualization / stimulus, Upshot

Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, reporting for NYT’s The Upshot, plotted the average…
Seeing CO2 is a playable data visualization

Infographics / carbon, environment, Extraordinary Facility, game, scale

Seeing CO2, by design studio Extraordinary Facility, is a playable data visualization that…

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