Nathan Yau

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Preserving Visualization Work that Will Probably Break or Disappear

The Process / archive, history

Not everything has to be permanent, but it would be nice if the best visualization projects were still available many years from now.
Inferring the scale of China’s Covid spike through obituaries

Infographics / China, coronavirus, deaths, illustration, New York Times

China reported 80,000 Covid deaths since lifting restrictions in early December 2022. But…
Cumulative points scored by LeBron James and other top scorers

Statistical Visualization / basketball, LeBron James, New York Times

Never fear, Sopan Deb, K.K. Rebecca Lai, and Eve Washington, for The New…
All of LeBron James’ career points, animated by season

Maps / basketball, Kirk Goldsberry, LeBron James, Vanna Bushong

All The King’s Buckets. pic.twitter.com/lzIultYSee
— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) February 8, 2023

LeBron…
Pele greatness illustrated

Infographics / football, Pele, South China Morning Post

For South China Morning Post, Victor Sanjinez and Dennis Wong used a visual…
Where Else You Can Work

Data Underload / industry, work

If you’re searching for a new job, it’s worth looking in different industries instead of doing more of the same elsewhere.
Scale of the Chinese balloon

Infographics / balloon, NBC News, scale

I wasn’t paying much attention to the Chinese balloon that the U.S. shot…
Objects in space headed towards Earth

Infographics / asteroids, NASA, Reuters, scale, space

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies tracks large objects, such as asteroids,…
Wonders of Google Street View

Maps / Google Streetview, Neal Agarwal, wonder

You know those funny or weird screenshots from Google Street View that enter…
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Eggtastic Graph

The Process / audience, egg, purpose

It is okay to fill the void with something fun.
Sankey diagrams to show change in opinion

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, public opinion, UK

For Bloomberg, Joe Mayes, Andre Tartar, and Demetrios Pogkas show shifts in public…
Shifts in time on the Doomsday Clock

Infographics / Doomsday Clock, metaphor, Quartz

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphorical clock that symbolizes a catastrophic end to…
Evolution of George Santos’ biography

Infographics / biography, George Santos, text, Washington Post

George Santos, currently a U.S. representative, seems to lie about his background and…
Stripper earnings tracked over four years

Self-surveillance / income, stripper

Reddit user nerdydancing tracked her earnings on each shift for four years. If…
Battling plant extinction

Infographics / conservation, drone, plants, Reuters

In a story about how scientists are using drones to fight plant extinction,…
Generating music from text

Statistics / Google, machine learning, music

Researchers at Google built a model that generates music based on brief text…
Differing approaches between SpaceX and NASA to sending rockets to the moon

Infographics / 3-D, moon, NASA, space, SpaceX, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, William Neff, Aaron Steckelberg, and Christian Davenport show the…
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Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, January 2023 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for January.
Misuse of the rainbow color scheme to visualize scientific data

Design / color, nature, rainbow, science

Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of…
Cinematic visualization

Design / 3-D, cinematic, narrative, research

Using the third dimension in visualization can be tricky because of rendering, perception,…

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