Nathan Yau

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Look for the Good Charts – The Process 134

The Process / good, possibilities

Focus on the possibilities instead of all of things you shouldn’t do.
Tooth Fairy Exchange Rate

Data Underload / money, Tooth Fairy

Calculating how much money a kid gets after exchanging all twenty baby teeth.
Collecting reports of anti-Asian hate crimes

Statistical Visualization / Asian, hate crime, New York Times, race

The New York Times collected, categorized, and linked to reports of anti-Asian hate…
Stores that closed on famous shopping streets

Infographics / Amanda Shendruk, coronavirus, Quartz, shopping, streets

Pre-pandemic, we walked around shopping areas casually browsing, but a lot of retail…
When you don’t own your face

Statistics / Clearview, facial recognition, New York Times, privacy

For The New York Times, Kashmir Hill describes the implications of facial recognition…
Public agencies using facial recognition software without oversight

Statistics / Clearview, facial recognition, police, privacy

An anonymous source supplied BuzzFeed News with usage data from Clearview AI, the…
Technopolitics of the U.S. census

Statistics / census, counting

Dan Bouk and Danah Boyd wrote an essay on the data infrastructure and…
How the Ever Given got unstuck

Infographics / Ever Given, Suez Canal, Washington Post

The Washington Post illustrated how the Ever Given got stuck and was freed…
Varying colors of state guidance maps

Design / Caity Weaver, color, coronavirus, New York Times

Many states use color to represent levels of Covid-19 and/or county restrictions. The…
Coronavirus variant tracker

Infographics / Axios, coronavirus, variant

For Axios, Will Chase, with illustrations by Brendan Lynch, provides the current status…
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Making Fewer Choices – The Process 133

The Process / chart types, choice, constraints

If you only consider data format to choose your chart type, then yeah, you’re probably approaching the problem too mechanically. But it’s still part of the process.
GDP and vaccination rates

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, New York Times, vaccination

For The New York Times, Keith Collins and Josh Holder look at the…
Rise of a variant in the U.K.

Maps / coronavirus, Reuters, United Kingdom, variant

As you likely know, there are coronavirus variants around the world. Reuters mapped…
Exploring your Google search history

Self-surveillance / Google, Jon Packles, search

Search history can say a lot of about a person, like where they’re…
Guess who the neighborhood voted for

Infographics / election, neighborhood, Upshot, voting

NYT’s The Upshot has a quiz that puts you in a neighborhood via…
Make the Ever Given get stuck anywhere

Maps / Ever Given, Garrett Dash Nelson, scale, Suez Canal

The Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. It was refloated. So…
Steer through the Suez Canal

Maps / CNN, game, Suez Canal

To better understand the challenge of steering a giant container ship through the…
Analysis of color names used with makeup

Infographics / color, makeup, Pudding

For The Pudding, Ofunne Amaka and Amber Thomas looked at shades, words, and…
What if a giant banana was orbiting Earth

Infographics / banana, humor, scale, space

yeti dynamics imagined if a giant banana were orbiting Earth from the same…
The Data Journalism Handbook

Statistics / book, data journalism

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice now has a second…

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