Nathan Yau

Any day is a good day for a map of predominant commercial chains.…

For Bloomberg, Elena Mejía and Shawn Donnan use a transitioning cartogram to show…

Fathom Information Design, known for client visualization-centric projects, introduced Rowboat. It’s a tool…

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…

For The Pudding, Matthew Daniels extracted all the outdoor basketball courts in the…

Visualization always involves trade-offs between audience, insights, and resources. Sometimes you make the wrong choice.

Nicola Rennie provides five quick tips to improve on default axis scales:
[T]he…

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…

Every two years, since 2012, the North American Cartographic Information Society publishes Atlas…

It’s easy to look at data and assume truthiness. Numbers! Facts! Concreteness! A lot of the time that’s just not the case.

This is one small bit in a Reuters piece by Mariano Zafra and…

For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor and Aaron Steckelberg show the contrast between…

AI models are trained on data, and better data helps make better models.…

Natural diamonds require a lot of pressure and time, and then someone has…

Default visualization settings are useful when it’s just you analyzing data. However, visual focus is better when it’s time to present.

You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves…