Nathan Yau

When every day feels like more of the same, here are some of the things I do to shake off the monotony.

For The New York Times, Denise Lu and Karen Yourish looked at the…

D3.js, a flexible JavaScript library useful for visualization, can feel intimidating at first.…

tixy.land is a minimalist coding environment by Martin Kleppe:
Control the size and…

For The Washington Post, Ashlyn Still and Ted Mellnik show the shifts in…

The microCOVID Project provides a calculator that lets you put in where you…

The Washington Post goes with a wind metaphor to show the change in…

Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us. Even when we know what is…

As I’m sure you know, it was Election Day on Tuesday here in the United States. I told myself that I wouldn’t watch the results roll in, because the record number of mail-in ballots would throw off regular timelines. Of course I broke.

Meanwhile… based on estimates from The COVID Tracking Project, the United States had…

Still waiting for those results? Bloomberg’s election page for each state shows the…

As we wait for the votes to be counted in the remaining states,…

The NYT election needles of uncertainty are back, and they’re about to go…

If you want to color in your own electoral map at home, The…

I’ve been distracted lately, so instead of making regular charts, I’ve been making…

It’s election day here in the United States, but millions of votes have…

For NYT Opinion, Betsy Mason outlines the design challenges behind election maps. Do…

Federal judge appointments are for a lifetime, so the younger a judge is…

Masks are effective in slowing down the spread of the coronavirus. The New…

With this simple choropleth map, Lauren Leatherby for The New York Times shows…