Nathan Yau

Explore Explain is a new visualization podcast about how the charts get made

Design / Andy Kirk, Explore Explain, podcast

From Andy Kirk, there’s a new visualization podcast in town:
Explore Explain is…
Global warming color stripes, as decorative conversation starter

Data Art / climate, Ed Hawkins, global warming, stripes

Ed Hawkins, who you might recognize from charts such as spiraling global temperature…
Climate change displayed, with shower tiles

Data Art / climate, global warming, physical, shower

Based on a chart by Ed Hawkins, the shower wall of Gretchen Goldman…
Change in Instacart searches after the coronavirus

Statistical Visualization / Bloomberg, coronavirus, grocery, Instacart

For Bloomberg, Ellen Huet and Lizette Chapman reported on the jolt for Instacart…
Bread Scheduler

Infographics / bread, schedule, Stuart A. Thompson

Is bread-making still a thing, or is that so two weeks ago? If…
Making stupid Excel bar charts

Miscellaneous / Excel, humor

I’m just gonna put this right here, from @_daviant: “Another day another stupid…
Evaluating timeline layouts

Design / research, timeline

To show events over time, you can use a timeline, which is often…
First unified geologic map of the moon

Maps / geology, moon, USGS

The USGS released a unified geologic map of the moon on a 1:5,000,000-scale…
Famous Hope Quotes as Charts

Chart Everything / hope, quote

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)

The Process / novelty, tornado

It looks like a tornado. It’s messy. It’s circular. It almost looks intentionally confusing. But how bad is it really?
Who should receive care first, an ethical dilemma

Infographics / coronavirus, Feilding Cage, healthcare, policy, Reuters

At greater disparities between low resources and high volumes of sick people, doctors…
Remix and make music with audio from the Library of Congress

Apps / Brian Foo, Library of Congress, music

Brian Foo is the current Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress. His latest…
Possible vaccine timelines

Infographics / coronavirus, New York Times, Stuart A. Thompson, vaccine

It’d be great if we could conjure a vaccine or a “cure” seemingly…
Coronavirus testing accuracy

Infographics / coronavirus, Quartz, testing, uncertainty

Medical tests do not always provide certain results. Quartz illustrated this with the…
Comparing Covid-19 models

Statistics / coronavirus, FiveThirtyEight, modeling

FiveThirtyEight compared six Covid-19 models for a sense of where we might be…
Playable simulations to decide what happens next

Infographics / coronavirus, Marcel Salathé, Nicky Case, simulation

The timelines keep shifting and people are getting antsy for many valid (and…
Looking for generational gaps in music

Statistics / generations, music, Pudding

Inspired by the genre of YouTube videos where younger people listen to older…
Neural network generates convincing songs by famous singers

Statistics / Jukebox, music, neural network, OpenAI

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

The Process / roundup

Every month, I collect visualization tools and resources that might help you make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for April.
Who Funds the World Health Organization

Data Underload / money, 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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