Nathan Yau

Here’s the good stuff for March 2021.

On a superficial level, color scale selection seems like a straightforward task. Pick…

For The Pudding, Lars Verspohl provides an introduction to statistical models disguised as…

Reviewing Deborah Stone’s Counting and Tim Harford’s The Data Detective, Hannah Fry discusses…

For ProPublica, Ken Schwencke reports on a poor data system that relies on…

But probably not.

In what seems to have become a trend of making more and more…

Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State…

For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…

For Quartz, Amanda Shendruk and Marc Bain analyzed skin tones that appeared in…

As a lead-in and backdrop to a timeline of the past year by…

As part of their Citizen Browser project to inspect Facebook, The Markup shows…

Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, reporting for NYT’s The Upshot, plotted the average…

Seeing CO2, by design studio Extraordinary Facility, is a playable data visualization that…

Bad charts get made. It’s inevitable. Sometimes I wonder how it happens though.

BirdCast, from Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, shows current…

Chris Ume, with the help of Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher, created highly…