Nathan Yau

There’s visualization for analysis. There’s visualization for presentation. There’s overlap between the groups, but the differences require a varied approach.

NPR put together a set of stories, videos, and interactives about bringing more…

FlowingData turned 14 years old last week. Is that old? It feels old.…

Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin is a free-to-download…

It’s been hot in the Pacific Northwest the past few days. NYT’s The…

Based on satellite imagery, Erin Davis found the average color of places around…

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy proposed new standards for first-class mail, which would slow…

To see all the matches from the group stage of Euro 2020 in…

Here’s the good stuff for June 2021.

ProPublica continues their analysis of an anonymous IRS tax records dump. In their…

Using data collected by Johns Hopkins University, Michelle McGhee and Will Chase for…

The New York Times mapped birth rates, which are down almost everywhere, especially…

Bloomberg used a Sankey diagram to show the path of over a thousand…

Prasanta Kumar Dutta and Manas Mishra reporting for Reuters on the slow rollout…

It’s hot here in the western United States, and it’s only mid-June. From…

To measure drought in the present day, we use data from sensors that…

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer have a new book out: A History of…

This week I broke down one of my projects and explained as many of the design choices as I could.

This looks promising:
While it is often easy, and tempting, to write a…