Projects
Graphics by Nathan Yau, borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
Why People Make Bad Charts (and What to Do When it Happens)
It's important to consider the reasons so that we don't overreact. Otherwise, we're just berating, pointing, and laughing all of the time, and that's not good for anyone.
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.
Visualizing Differences
Focus on finding or displaying contrasting points, and some visual methods are more helpful than others. A guide.
Most Common Occupation by Age
As we get older, job options shift — along with experience, education, and wear on our bodies.
Visualizing Outliers
Step 1: Figure out why the outlier exists in the first place. Step 2: Choose from these visualization options to show the outlier.
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?
Visualizing Incomplete and Missing Data
We love complete and nicely formatted data. That's not what we get a lot of the time.
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.
