Nathan Yau

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…
Unemployment and Occupation

Data Underload / coronavirus, unemployment, work

Unemployment has hit some industries more than others. Here’s how the most recent estimates compare against last year’s.
Charting and ranking apocalyptic events

Infographics / apocalypse, Domain of Science

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For Domain of Science, Dominic Walliman attempts to…
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The Process 118 – Maybe a Bar Chart Really Would Be Better

The Process / experiment, traditional

As visualization practitioners, we tend to sway towards the novel, but bar charts are still good.
Visualizing 16th century letter correspondence of the Tudor government

Network Visualization / letters, Tudor

Kim Albrecht, Ruth Ahnert, and Sebastian Ahnert visualized the network of communications over…
Where ICUs are near capacity

Maps / coronavirus, Health and Human Services, hospital, ICU, New York Times

The New York Times mapped the seven-day average of ICU bed occupancy rates:…
NBA Players Traded, Historical Percentages

Data Underload / basketball, trading

It seems like there’s been more player movement than usual over the years. Didn’t players used to play on a single team for the entirety of their careers?
Bill Nye on masks, with a map and some props

Infographics / Bill Nye, coronavirus, mask

Talking about the effectiveness of masks on TikTok, Bill Nye uses a map…
House raided of fired Florida data manager in charged of Covid-19 dashboard

News / coronavirus, Florida, raid, Rebekah Jones

Jeffrey Schweers for Tallahassee Democrat:
State police brandishing firearms Monday raided the Tallahassee…

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