Nathan Yau
@flowingdata.com
Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
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Nathan Yau
@flowingdata.com
· Feb 13
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
Snatch up the WaPo folks. A lot of talent entered free agency today.
February 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Snatch up the WaPo folks. A lot of talent entered free agency today.
From the White House, a bar chart that starts at 80.2 to exaggerate change incorrectly.
Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
February 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
From the White House, a bar chart that starts at 80.2 to exaggerate change incorrectly.
Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Out of New York and California and into Florida and Texas. Population drops and gains in every state flowingdata.com/2026/01/29/p...
Population drops and gains in every state
Most states gained population, but a few saw more people move out than move in, based on the newest estimates from the Census Bureau.
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January 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Out of New York and California and into Florida and Texas. Population drops and gains in every state flowingdata.com/2026/01/29/p...
Dumb times, dumb charts. Timelines for the people references in We Didn't Start the Fire flowingdata.com/2026/01/20/t...
Timelines for those still alive from “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
In his song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, Billy Joel references 57 people. Three of them are still alive.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Dumb times, dumb charts. Timelines for the people references in We Didn't Start the Fire flowingdata.com/2026/01/20/t...
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Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten:
There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.
9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.
There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.
9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.
Are 3,000 ICE agents ‘disproportionate’ to Twin Cities police forces?
Their presence is bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.
www.startribune.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten:
There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.
9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.
There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.
9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
New Year's resolutions for men and women that we will definitely follow through with this year flowingdata.com/2026/01/05/n...
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
New Year's resolutions for men and women that we will definitely follow through with this year flowingdata.com/2026/01/05/n...
Happy new year everyone
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Happy new year everyone
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025, a.k.a. my favorites flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/b...
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025
Many data things were made this year. These are my favorites.
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December 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025, a.k.a. my favorites flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/b...
Who we spend our time with is just as important as how we spend our time. With age, sex, and day of week, there are shifts in who we choose to be with
flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t...
flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t...
December 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Who we spend our time with is just as important as how we spend our time. With age, sex, and day of week, there are shifts in who we choose to be with
flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t...
flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t...
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
Who makes more than you and the jobs they have, depends on your annual salary of course flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w...
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Who makes more than you and the jobs they have, depends on your annual salary of course flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w...
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NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing
The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Welcome back, federal workers.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Welcome back, federal workers.
How men and women spend their days, a view into responsibilities and priorities between the sexes flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/s...
How Men and Women Spend Their Days
Women and men tend to spend their days differently in the United States. Varying responsibilities and priorities will do that.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
How men and women spend their days, a view into responsibilities and priorities between the sexes flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/s...
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
If we define middle-class income based on median, a la @pewresearch.org, what qualifies as middle income changes by state and household size flowingdata.com/2025/10/23/m...
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If we define middle-class income based on median, a la @pewresearch.org, what qualifies as middle income changes by state and household size flowingdata.com/2025/10/23/m...
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I've been feeling the uncertainty all year. Turns out, I'm not alone.
A milestone birthday and an untenable employment situation were enough. But the global multi-crises tipped me over the edge. I got a tattoo, bangs and quit my job.
Then I launched a newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
A milestone birthday and an untenable employment situation were enough. But the global multi-crises tipped me over the edge. I got a tattoo, bangs and quit my job.
Then I launched a newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
www.not-ship.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I've been feeling the uncertainty all year. Turns out, I'm not alone.
A milestone birthday and an untenable employment situation were enough. But the global multi-crises tipped me over the edge. I got a tattoo, bangs and quit my job.
Then I launched a newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
A milestone birthday and an untenable employment situation were enough. But the global multi-crises tipped me over the edge. I got a tattoo, bangs and quit my job.
Then I launched a newsletter.
www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...
It's World Statistics Day, only once every five years, almost like the Olympics but even more rare unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/202...
World Statistics Day 2025
Official website for World Statistics Day 2025
unstats.un.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's World Statistics Day, only once every five years, almost like the Olympics but even more rare unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/202...
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM