Data Visualizations
Inspiration for visualizing data, concepts and theories. And on how to work with data and become a data scientist.
Collection by Katja Evertz
The New York Times
See How the Dixie Fire Created Its Own Weather
3 min read · Oct 20th · This year’s largest blaze fueled its own firestorms, again and again. The New York Times reconstructed a 3-D model to let you get up close.
Nathan Yau
How the Longest Running Shows Rated Over Episodes
1 min read · Oct 15th · Most television shows don’t get past the first season, but there are some that manage to stick around. These are the 175 longest running shows on IMDb that have ratings.
medium.com
What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation
Oct 8th · I made a web tool that lets you spy your hidden literary style
erdavis.com
Average seasonal colors of the USA
~12 min read · Sep 7th · My last post, Average Colors of the World, leaked out of this blog and spread all over the internet! It was super neat, but a common piece of feedback stuck in my head: I only mapped what the world…
inamericaflags.org
Remember
Sep 22nd · In September, this art exhibition will blanket the National Mall with over 600,000 white flags, showing the magnitude of our loss as a nation, while honoring each person who has died from COVID-19.
Data Visualization Society
THE KIDS’ TABLE: Draw Along Dataviz
3 min read · Sep 16th · This article is part of The Kids’ Table section on kids dataviz. This section of Nightingale is filled with mini-lessons and drawing activities so that you can do data visualization, too! Each of the…
Visual Capitalist
All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic
~17 min read · Aug 21st · Our planet supports approximately 8.7 million species, of which over a quarter live in water. But humans can hav
builtin.com
6 Ways to Make Data-Visualization Literacy Part of Company Culture
7 min read · Aug 28th · Data viz has reached the masses. Don’t mistake that for proficiency.
river-runner.samlearner.com
River Runner
May 15th · Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the contiguous United States
Nathan Yau
Atlas of the Invisible
Sep 9th · James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti teamed up for another book of maps, Atlas of the Invisible: Sometimes we miss what we can’t step back to see. Sometimes the invisible only appears with the creep of…
UX Collective
20 ideas for better data visualization
~12 min read · Aug 18th · Applications we design are becoming increasingly data-driven. The need for quality data visualization is high as ever. Confusing and…
builtin.com
21 Must-Read Data Visualization Books, According to Experts
~14 min read · Jun 30th · From general interest to business-practical to advanced texts.
Nathan Yau
Daily Routine, 2020
1 min read · Aug 19th · After looking at how much time we spent on daily activities in 2020, let’s look at when we spent our time.
Datawrapper
In defense of simple charts
10 min read · Jul 26th · Simple visualizations don't need to be boring. Here's why. And how.
Nathan Yau
How Much the Everyday Changes When You Are in a Pandemic
3 min read · Aug 4th · Our everyday routines changed over the past year, and with the 2020 American Time Use Survey, we can see by how much.
Nathan Yau
Counting Happiness and Where it Comes From
2 min read · Jul 29th · Researchers asked 10,000 participants to list ten things that recently made them happy. I counted and connected the dots.
