Nathan Yau

@flowingdata.com

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Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com

Piles of player heads to show missed games. Biggest pile for 2018 Golden State Warriors opponents.
Movie poster for Along Came Polly. Tagline: "For the most cautious man on Earth, life is about to get interesting."
Beeswarm chart showing distributions of occupations by divorce rate. Actuaries had the lowest rate.
"AI-Generated Text on the Internet from Mid-2022 to Mid-2025. The proportion of websites classified as fully AI-generated (red) and AI-generated or AI-assisted (purple) based on Pangram v3 detection applied to representative samples obtained from the Internet Archive. The dashed line marks ChatGPT's public launch in November 2022." - Dolezal et al.
Multi-line chart showing percentage of workers with at least a given tenure, by age, sex, and education. Older folks have longer tenures because math, but there are more subtle changes over the years like during the Great Financial Crisis and the pandemic.
homepage of information aesthetics, with the most recent post from 2014
Bar chart with exaggerated change between two years by incorrectly starting y-axis at 80.2.
Dumbbell chart showing ordered resolutions. Women emphasized happiness, eating healthy, losing weight, and paying down debt more than men did.
A treemap that shows occupations based on salary income. More management and healthcare practitioners as the dollars go up.
Venn diagrams as jack-o-laterns showing trick/treat logicals: OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, and XNOR
Bar chart showing percentage of adults, by state, who had alcoholic beverage in past 30 days. D.C., Vermont, New Hampshire, and Montana are around 60%.
Browser window with data.census.gov opened. Text reads, "Due to the lapse of federal funding, portions of this website will not be updated. Any inquiries submitted will not be answered until appropriations are enacted."
Beeswarm chart showing distribution of median salary by occupation.
Stacked bars posing as Sankey diagrams showing most surface water coming from forests
3-d elevation map by Scott Reinhard, in the style of the Statistical Atlas 1870, with modern data.
Mosaic plots showing state population. More area for more population in 1870. New York the biggest.
Shifting bar chart with dropdown menus to change age and sex.
It’s Vicki from Small Wonder
Alerts map from NWS for July 7. Flood watch in central Texas, extreme heat warning in southwest, heat advisory in northeast and northwest.
An "elevator" at 82 kilometers above sea level, viewing the Falcon 9 rocket
Oil well doing a mile down, then the titanic at 2 miles, eventually to deepest part of the Pacific Ocean 7 miles down.
Graphic that shows depth that recent bunker-buster bombs can reach, eventually past height of a 22-story building.
We are cashiers during the teenage years. Drivers come in all ages, whereas nurses and teachers enter the picture once they earn their credentials. Women who work in their later years are commonly secretaries.
World map that shows Antartica on top and Greenland on the bottom.
Brazil in center, south on top, unlike usual world map with north on top.
Measurements for bust, waist, and hip. Variations across brands even though supposed to be same size 8.
Pencil-looking outlines of dresses from Met Gala from 2019 and 2024. A lot of flare in 2019.
Flight maps showing increased ICE transfers from northeast to southwest compared to previous administrations
Animated line chart showing recent drop in the short term but a movement up and to the right in the long term.
Networks showing Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, Target, Amazon, Alhold Delhaize, and Costco rule the supermarket kingdom.
Squares showing relative scales of health insurance in the United States. 54% have private only, 25% have public only, 8% have no coverage. The rest have mixed coverages. Source: ACS 2023
Emergency alert for a tsunami.
A mosaic of all the charts to indicate you can make all the charts.
Line charts showing Turkey search peaks at Thanksgiving, followed by side dishes.
a basketball that is also a globe
There is a normal distribution curve and a "paranormal" curve in the shape of a sheeted ghost.
Time series charts arranged as state grid showing higher EV, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid in western states, then eastern states, and relatively low adoption in the middle of the country. So far the peak is in California at about 8,000 total registered EVs per 100,000 total registered vehicles.
Dorling cartogram of U.S. comparing number of McDonald's locations against golf courses. McDonald's concentrates in cities whereas golf courses can spread to to more open areas.