Nathan Yau

Disappearing animals as a matrix of dots

Data Art / animals, extinction

Reddit user WhiteCheeks used dot density to show population counts of various animals.…
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The Process 106 – Self-Imposed Visualization Constraints, for Focus and Fun

The Process / constraints

Constraints usually seem like a bad thing. Less freedom. You can’t do exactly what you want to do. You’re limited. But sometimes constraints can lead you towards unexpected paths.
Timeline of California Wildfires

Data Underload / California, wildfire

The wind was blowing smoke and ash from wildfires further up north from where I live. The sky turned an eerie orange. I wondered about past fires and made the chart below.
Math behind wearing masks

Infographics / Aatish Bhatia, coronavirus, mask, Minute Physics

The math behind wearing a mask can seem unintuitive at times. Minute Physics…
Telling stories in visual, data-driven essays

Design / Ilia Blinderman, Pudding, storytelling

For The Pudding, Ilia Blinderman rounds out his three-part series on creating visual,…
Picking the right colors for your charts

Design / color, Datawrapper, Lisa Charlotte Rost

Picking colors for your charts can be tricky, especially when you’re starting a…
Design your own election scenario

Maps / election, Washington Post

As we have seen, small shifts in voting behavior of various demographic groups…
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The Process 105 – Piecing Together the Basics

The Process / basics, getting started, teaching

You gotta walk before you crawl. Wait a minute.
Wanna know somefing?

Self-surveillance / humor, kids, Reddit

From Reddit user wequiock_falls, “What I’m about to learn about after my kid…
Multiple Causes of Death

Data Underload / CDC, cherrypicking, coronavirus, mortality

There’s a 6 percent figure from the CDC that could be easily misinterpreted. Here’s what it means.
Red-blue electoral map and the green-gray in satellite imagery

Maps / electoral, Krishna Karra, machine learning, satellite imagery, Tim Wallace

For NYT’s The Upshot, Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra looked at how the…
Choose your own election outcome

Infographics / election, New York Times, outcome, uncertainty

The election is full of what-ifs, and the result changes depending on which…
How to vote in each state

Infographics / election, FiveThirtyEight, voting

Each state is handling mail-in voting in a certain way with varying timelines…
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How to Untangle a Spaghetti Line Chart (with R Examples)

Tutorials / R

Put multiple time series lines on the same plot, and you quickly end up with a mess. Here are practical ways to clean it up.
Audit advanced data science course online

Statistics / course, data science, Jeff Leek, Johns Hopkins, Roger Peng

Jeff Leek and Roger Peng started their course Advanced Data Science at Johns…
Time for last-minute mail voting

Statistical Visualization / election, New York Times, USPS, voting

The New York Times provides a state-by-state chart timeline for voting by mail:…
Minimizing risk

Statistics / coronavirus, New York Times, risk

For NYT Opinion, Aaron E. Carroll on doing small things that sum to…
Minutes spoken at the Republican Convention

Infographics / convention, New York Times, Republican, talking

The New York Times provides a breakdown of minutes spoken at the Republican…
Dying mid-range mall

Statistical Visualization / bankruptcy, Bloomberg, coronavirus, mall

Bloomberg looks at how retail struggles might kill the middle-of-the-road malls before this…
Two.js for two-dimensional drawing and animation in modern web browsers

Software / animation, JavaScript

“Two.js is deeply inspired by flat motion graphics. As a result, two.js aims…

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