Nathan Yau

Bad charts get made. It’s inevitable. Sometimes I wonder how it happens though.

BirdCast, from Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shows current…

Chris Ume, with the help of Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher, created highly…

Speaking of A.I. and fiction, Adam Epstein for Quartz reported on how Wattpad,…

Pamela Miskhin, in collaboration with The Pudding, wrote a love story. It’s not…

The Royal Statistical Society published ten lessons governments should takeaway from this year,…

There was a lot of uncertainty in the beginning of the pandemic, so…

For Reuters, Julia Janicki and Simon Scarr, with illustrations by Catherine Tai, show…

Every month I collect new visualization tools and learning resources to help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for February 2021.

RAWGraphs, a tool conceived by DensityDesign in 2013, got a 2.0 update in…

This is quite a dive by Moises Velasquez-Manoff and Jeremy White for The…

As schools begin to reopen, The New York Times illustrates why classrooms should…

Oftentimes we see “algorithms” referenced in various contexts, but the definition of an…

For Reuters, Sarah Slobin and Feilding Cage imagine life back at the office…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that said life…

Everyone’s a beginner at some point.

While we’re on the topic of scale, The New York Times plotted weekly…

The United States passed the half million mark for confirmed Covid-19 deaths. It’s…