I’m just gonna put this right here, from @_daviant: “Another day another stupid…
Nathan Yau
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Making stupid Excel bar charts
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Evaluating timeline layouts
To show events over time, you can use a timeline, which is often…
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First unified geologic map of the moon
The USGS released a unified geologic map of the moon on a 1:5,000,000-scale…
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Famous Hope Quotes as Charts
I thought we (i.e. me) could use a break, so I made these abstract charts to represent the most popular quotes about hope.
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Tornado Lines – Useful or Not? (The Process 088)
It looks like a tornado. It’s messy. It’s circular. It almost looks intentionally confusing. But how bad is it really?
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Who should receive care first, an ethical dilemma
At greater disparities between low resources and high volumes of sick people, doctors…
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Remix and make music with audio from the Library of Congress
Brian Foo is the current Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. His latest…
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Possible vaccine timelines
It’d be great if we could conjure a vaccine or a “cure” seemingly…
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Coronavirus testing accuracy
Medical tests do not always provide certain results. Quartz illustrated this with the…
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Comparing Covid-19 models
FiveThirtyEight compared six Covid-19 models for a sense of where we might be…
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Playable simulations to decide what happens next
The timelines keep shifting and people are getting antsy for many valid (and…
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Looking for generational gaps in music
Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…
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Neural network generates convincing songs by famous singers
Jukebox from OpenAI is a generative model that makes music in the same…
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Resources – April 2020 Roundup
Every month, I collect visualization tools and resources that might help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for April.
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Who Funds the World Health Organization
A couple of weeks ago — or maybe it was a couple of years ago, I’m not sure — the administration announced it would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization. Here’s what that does to the overall picture.
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Text-to-speech models trained on celebrity voices
The Vocal Synthesis channel on YouTube trains text-to-speech models using publicly available celebrity…
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Pretend mall map to show at-risk brands
Many brands that were at-risk before the pandemic or ran with low profit…
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Text from press briefings categorized
The New York Times went through the words used during press briefings, pulling…
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Excess deaths
We cannot know the true number of coronavirus-related deaths. Maybe it’s because of…
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Search trends during the pandemic
As you would imagine, what we search for online shifted over the past…