Nathan Yau

This is a fun map by Matt Dzugan. Search for a city, and…

We know the oceans are deep, but it’s difficult to grasp the scale…

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.

Valentina D’Efilippo, Arpad Ray, and Duncan Geere visualized and sonified Covid-19 rates and…

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…

Here’s the good stuff for October.

There has been progress since the Paris climate agreement in 2014, but there’s…

Earth is getting warmer, and the previously abstract concept seems to grow more…

For Scientific American, Cédric Scherer and Georgios Karamanis charted drought extent by region…