Projects
Graphics by Nathan Yau, borne out of everyday curiosities, learning experiments, and mild insomnia.
Getting started with visualization after getting started with visualization
Here's where to go next once you've covered the basics of visualization. When it's time to actually start making things.
Grocery store geography
I’ve been poking around grocery store locations, courtesy of AggData, the past few…
What the Sexes Want, in Speed Dating
A few years ago I downloaded speed dating data from experiments conducted by…
Data Points: Sample chapter
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a month since Data Points: Visualization…
Flexible data
Data is an abstraction of something that happened in the real world. How…
A Survival Guide to Starting and Finishing a PhD
Tips on making it through, what I would tell my previous self going in, and advice on taking advantage of the unique opportunity that is graduate school.
Data Points: What it’s like to write a book
As the publication of Data Points nears, I’m excited to hold it in…
Data Points: First look
For the past year, I’ve been working on Data Points: Visualization that Means…
Show Me Something Good
Visualization is a great way to explain and describe data to people who…
