Nathan Yau

All of the insults

Infographics / insults, Kevin Quealy, Twitter, Upshot

For NYT’s The Upshot, Kevin Quealy has been cataloging all of the insults…
Parler video feed of the mob at the Capitol

Infographics / Parler, ProPublica, video

As you probably know, there was a big Parler data scrape before the…
Random number generation with lava lamps

Statistics / Cloudflare, lava lamp, randomness, Tom Scott

Tom Scott explains how Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps to generate…
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In the Details of the Data – Process 122

The Process / details

The best way to make charts more interesting is to provide lots of details, which requires more work on your end but pays off in the end result.
Food recipe cards to preserve family’s culture

Infographics / culture, food, Jane Zhang, recipes

In an effort to preserve part of her family’s culture, Jane Zhang designed…
Second impeachment

Chart Everything / impeachment

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Mining Parler data

Data Sources / Capitol, metadata, Motherboard, Parler, scraping

Just before the social network Parler went down, a researcher who goes by…
Minute-by-minute timeline for what happened at the Capitol

Maps / Capitol, mob, New York Times

The New York Times outlined the minutes from the speech leading to the…
Not so likely life of The Simpsons

Statistics / Atlantic, median, money, The Simpsons, work

For The Atlantic, Dani Alexis Ryskamp compares the financials of The Simpsons against…
Machine learning to find a recipe for a baked good that’s half cake and half cookie

Statistics / baking, food, machine learning, recipe

Last year, around the time when people were baking a lot of things,…
What is a particle?

Infographics / particle, physics, Quanta Magazine

Natalie Wolchover for Quanta Magazine asked several physicists what a particle is. She…
Map of the voting in Georgia, the runoff vs. the general election

Maps / election, Georgia, runoff, Senate, Upshot

For NYT’s The Upshot, Nate Cohn explains how Warnock and Ossoff won Georgia.…
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Looking Forward – Process 121

The Process / goals

I’m not one for new year’s resolutions, but this year seems different and requires some goals.
How the mob broke into the U.S. Capitol

Infographics / Capitol, government, mob, Washington Post

The Washington Post pieced together video footage from multiple sources for a timeline…
Neural network creates images from text

Statistics / images, neural network, OpenAI, text

OpenAI trained a neural network that they call DALL·E with a dataset of…
Turn images into LEGO builds in R

Software / brickr, LEGO, R, Ryan Timpe

The brickr package in R by Ryan Timpe takes an image, converts it…
How the Census translates to power, a cat comic

Infographics / census, comic, government, NPR

State population dictates the number of seats in the House of Representatives, so…
Pollution exposure plotted, a comparison between two kids’ day

Infographics / India, New York Times, pollution

The New York Times measured pollution exposure during the day for two kids…
Mapping disappearing beaches in Hawaii

Maps / beach, Hawaii, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, ProPublica, wall

Ash Ngu for ProPublica and Sophie Cocke for Honolulu Star-Advertiser show the harm…
2020.

Site News / annual review

Last year, in 2019, my main goals for FlowingData and work were to…

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