Nathan Yau

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…
Reconstructing the killing of Breonna Taylor

Infographics / Breonna Taylor, New York Times, reconstruction

The New York Times reconstructed the night. Based on a collection of court…
Climate change in 2020

Statistical Visualization / climate change, Reuters

It used to be that climate changed seemed like something far off in…
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Visualization Tools and Resources Roundup – December 2020

The Process / roundup

Here’s the good stuff for December in the last issue of the year.
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2020

Visualization / best-of

It’s been a year. We saw a lot of charts. These are the best ones.
Evolution of coronavirus strains

Statistical Visualization / coronavirus, Reuters, strains

Reuters looked at how seven main strains of the virus evolved around the…
Historical cost of light

Infographics / cost, light, Pudding, work

These days, most of us don’t have to do much to turn on…
Who catches the most fish

Maps / Bloomberg, fishing, Global Fishing Watch

Using data from Global Fishing Watch, Hayley Warren and Ian Wishart for Bloomberg…
1 in 5 prisoners had Covid-19, a grid map

Maps / Associated Press, coronavirus, Marshall Project, prison

The Marshall Project and The Associated Press report on the Covid-19 rates in…
Tracking world’s biggest iceberg

Maps / iceberg, Reuters, scale

The world’s biggest iceberg, A68a, is on track to crash into a remote…
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Knowing Nothing (Process 119)

The Process / beginners, learning

Obviously, knowing nothing can be a negative, but some of my favorite work came about when I didn’t know how to do something or what to expect.
Blob Opera is a machine learning model you can make music with

Statistics / blob, David Li, Google, machine learning, opera

David Li, in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture, made a fun experiment…
Basketball court designed as a national park map

Maps / basketball, Kirk Goldsberry, park

Kirk Goldsberry, whose basketball charts you might recognize, made the Naismith International Park…
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How to Make an Animated Beeswarm Chart

Tutorials / animation, d3js

Beeswarm charts are useful to highlight individual categories or entities. Animating them can help highlight change over time.
Data for all of the referee calls in NBA games

Data Sources / basketball, Owen Phillips, referee

Owen Phillips compiled per game and cumulative foul calls for all NBA referees…
Infrared to show air particles from your talk hole

Infographics / coronavirus, droplets, infrared, Washington Post

I’m sure you know this already, but just in case, air particles come…

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