Nathan Yau

Data Visualization in Society, an open access book, is a collection of works…

This is interesting:

What does 425,000 Covid deaths sound like? I was inspired…

NYT’s The Upshot published their precinct-level map of 2020 election results. Zoom in…

With this straightforward unit chart, wcd.fyi shows which generation each Senate member belonged…

I’m also looking forward to Jer Thorp’s Living in Data, which comes out…

While we’re on the topic of Statistics books for the general public, David…

Tim Harford has a new book coming out tomorrow called The Data Detective:…

For Reuters, Feilding Cage, Chris Canipe and Prasanta Dutta made an interactive that…

Vivian Wu made a snowflake generator. Adjust parameters such as growth, kaleidoscoping, and…

Here’s the good stuff for January.

The United States passed 425,000 coronavirus deaths this week. For The New York…

Twitter released a small JavaScript library to make density plots — for when…

With vaccines, we might be tempted to jump back into “normal” life before…

Maybe you remember the SimCity-like views through satellite imagery from a few of…

Thomas Mock explains how to extract and parse data tables in image files…

Jon Schwabish has a new book coming out: Better Data Visualizations. To kick…

I make most of my static charts in R, but I always bring them into Illustrator for polish, layout, and readability. Here’s my process.

The New York Times labeled all of the people sitting behind Joe Biden…

Based on estimates from the MIT Trancik Lab, The New York Times plotted…

For Bloomberg, Jeremy C.F. Lin and Rachael Dottle show what Joe Biden’s inauguration…