Projects
Graphics by Nathan Yau, borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
Warranty Expiration
With almost absolute certainty, every product dies a quick death once its warranty…
A Diagram of All the Batteries
After an unsuccessful battery search, the natural next step was of course to look up battery sizes and chart all of them.
What Makes People the Most Happy
It's in the details of 100,000 moments. I analyzed the crowd-sourced corpus to see what brought the most smiles.
Shifted Social Media Usage, Among Teens
Facebook took the biggest hit in the past three years. Snapchat and Instagram got more likes.
Remote Workers vs. Non-Remote Workers
How the schedules between remote and non-remote workers differ during workdays.
Basketball Stat Cherry Picking
Wow your friends during the game with random win percentages, based on various player stats.
If We All Left to “Go Back Where We Came From”
Imagine that those with immigrants in their family tree left the country. Almost everyone, basically.
Data, R, and a 3-D Printer
We almost always look at data through a screen. It's quick and good for exploration. So is there value in making data physical? I played around with a 3-D printer to find out.
Most Common Occupation by Age
As we get older, job options shift — along with experience, education, and wear on our bodies.
How Different Income Groups Spend Money
After living expenses, where does the money go, and how does it change when you have more cash available?
The Demographics of Others
I think we can all benefit from knowing a little more about others these days. This is a glimpse of how different groups live.
12 Days of ChaRt-mas
As everyone has already checked out for the rest of the year, I'm going to mess around with R to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas and nobody can stop me.