Nathan Yau

As vaccinations roll out, we work towards herd immunity, there are various challenges…

The two approaches answer two different questions.

When we visualize data to communicate to others, we must consider what others…

Based on data from the Global Forecast System, The New York Times mapped…

Thomas Lin Pedersen announced the ragg package, which makes font usage in R…

Lauren Leatherby and Amy Schoenfeld Walker reporting for The New York Times:
“Every…

PowerOutage.US keeps a running tally of outages across the United States, and it’s…

This is fun. Lisa Charlotte Rost made a data visualization crossword puzzle. Print…

Visualization rules and best practices are generalized solutions to generalized problems. Better visualization requires a more specific view.

You probably knew that coronavirus deaths have been in the several thousands per…

Vaccines provide light at the end of the tunnel, but when we finally…

There’s something about hearing music live no matter how many times you’ve heard…

For NYT Opinion, Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson returned to the topic…

Continuing her annual tradition, Janelle Shane trained various AI models to generate two-word-all-caps…

The Pandemic Graphics Archive is a work-in-progress collection of floor signs and posters…

People’s interpretation of a chart can change if you use differents words to describe it, even if the data stays the same.

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…