Nathan Yau

Pen plotter used as storytelling device

Infographics / oil, pen plotter

Pen plotters slowly draw out a picture line-by-line, so when you watch a…

Visualizing black America in 1900

Statistical Visualization / African American, history, W. E. B. Du Bois

The visualization work of W.E.B. Du Bois and his students has been on…

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Seeing the Dust (The Process 092)

The Process / complexity, racism

Keep your eyes open.

Protecting your mobile data and privacy while at a protest

Apps / mobile, privacy, The Markup

Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup:
“All protesting and all marches are a…

Failed CDC data pipeline

Data Sharing / CDC, coronavirus, New York Times

The New York Times reports on how the CDC struggled and failed on…

A comic on spotting misinformation

Infographics / comic, Connie Jin, coronavirus, misinformation, NPR

There’s a lot of misinformation passing through the internets right now. A lot.…

Racial Divide

Data Underload / race, segregation

It’s hard to think of much else. These maps show the racial divide between black and white people in major cities.

Guides for Visualizing Reality

Design / guide

We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though.

Impact on Households in the United States

Data Underload / Census Bureau, coronavirus, Pulse, states

The Census Bureau has been running the Household Pulse Survey since April 23, 2020 to get some gauge for how the pandemic is changing things at home. Here’s how things look so far.

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Visualization Tools and Resources – May 2020 Roundup

The Process / roundup

Every month I collect useful visualization tools and resources to make better charts. Here’s the good stuff for May.

What the federal government has been buying and where from

Data Sources / coronavirus, procurement, ProPublica

The Federal Procurement Data System tracks federal contracts of $10,000 or more. For…

54 ways coronavirus changed the world

Infographics / coronavirus, Larry Buchanan, New York Times

The coronavirus has changed everything. Larry Buchanan, for The New York Times, goes…

Map shows increasing confirmed cases in rural areas

Maps / coronavirus, Tim Meko, Washington Post

This map by Tim Meko for The Washington Post uses time series lines…

Anatomy of an outbreak

Network Visualization / coronavirus, outbreak, Reuters, Singapore

For Reuters, Manas Sharma and Simon Scarr animated a coronavirus outbreak in Singapore…

Based on poll, a lot of people think Bill Gates is plotting to inject a tracker via coronavirus vaccine?

Statistics / Bill Gates, coronavirus, vaccine, Yahoo, YouGov

A Yahoo News/YouGov poll recently showed this:

Only 40% of American adults are…

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Improving the Georgia Cases Chart (The Process 090)

The Process / coronavirus, Georgia

The Georgia Department of Public Health published a questionable chart showing confirmed Covid-19 cases over time. Intentionally misleading or poorly made chart?