Nathan Yau

Dialed, a color memory game

Design / color, game

People are usually not great at remembering exact colors. Dialed is a fun…
Map of countries aligning with China

Maps / China, Guardian, United Nations

Using an analysis from Focaldata, the Guardian used the angled arrow approach to…
Geopolitical axis between the United States and China

Statistical Visualization / China, Focaldata, politics, United Nations, United States, world

Focaldata calculated United Nations voting patterns by country, relative to the United States…
Invalidated tariffs

Statistical Visualization / law, New York Times, Supreme Court, tariff

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the administration’s “emergency” tariffs to be illegal. This…
Maps show not enough electricity in Cuba

Maps / Bloomberg, Cuba, electricity, light, satellite imagery

For Bloomberg, Krishna Karra and Stephen Wicary map blackouts in Cuba due to…
Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases

Statistical Visualization / deportation, habeas petition, ProPublica, Texas Tribune, tracker

ProPublica and the Texas Tribune report on the spike of claims over the…
Coding on the train

Artificial Intelligence / code, New York Times, Paul Ford, technology, vibe-code

Paul Ford, for NYT Opinion, on his outlook for making software by vibe…
Most common fields of study, from 1970 to now

Data Underload / degrees, education

Over the decades, we can see the shifts (and non-shifts) in professional priorities and interests by looking at what college students are studying.
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Rank and order

The Process / rank, sorting

This week is about how we rank from best to worst and use visualization to highlight order.
Rise of Bad Bunny

Infographics / Bad Bunny, music, Reuters

For Reuters, Ally J. Levine and Tiana McGee illustrate and chart the rise:…
Jeffrey Epstein’s network via 1.4m emails

Statistical Visualization / Economist, email, Jeffrey Epstein, Large Language Model

With the most recent Epstein release, the Economist collaborated with the folks who…
Meta planning facial recognition with glasses

Data Sharing / facial recognition, glasses, Meta, privacy

Meta’s smart glasses have an outward facing camera pointed at what you’re looking…
Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock

Data Sharing / Flock, privacy, Ring, surveillance

The Amazon-owned security system Ring was planning to partner with Flock Safety, who…
Dinosaurs, not dinosaurs

Infographics / dinosaurs, humor, xkcd

xkcd drops the knowledge with a proper classification for the stapler. The pairwise…
Ring cameras as large-scale surveillance system

Data Sharing / 404 Media, privacy, Ring, surveillance

During the Super Bowl, Ring ran a commercial that shows how everyone’s doorbell…
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Visual echoes

The Process / compositing, traces

This week is about tracing back for context and comparing.
Searchable database of unregulated political contributions

Statistical Visualization / contributions, elections, politics, ProPublica

ProPublica updated their explorer for money flowing into 527s.
Every year, hundreds of…
Composite ski race to show 0.04-second win

Infographics / Breezy Johnson, compositing, New York Times, Olympics, skiing

In the women’s downhill, Breezy Johnson won gold with a time of 1…
10k fewer STEM PhDs employed by the federal government

Statistical Visualization / government, layoffs, PhD, Science Journal

Science analyzed employment data from the Office of Personnel Management to calculate the…
Network map of Bluesky users

Network Visualization / Bluesky, Theo Sanderson

Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow…

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