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Nathan Yau
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Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · Feb 13
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...
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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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

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December 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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neal.fun
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/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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
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Very good.
Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Bye doge.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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christinezhang.bsky.social
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...
Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025
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November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Welcome back, federal workers.
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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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
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Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
Venn diagrams as jack-o-laterns showing trick/treat logicals: OR, AND, XOR, NOR, NAND, and XNOR
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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
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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...
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
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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
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October 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Cost of Living, by State and Spending Category flowingdata.com/2025/10/16/c...

It's sortin' time.
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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How much alcohol Americans drink flowingdata.com/2025/10/02/a...
How Much Alcohol Americans Drink
Just under half of adults in the United States said they had an alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days. Does this change for various groups?
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October 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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."
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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alexip718.com
Got my first @flowingdata.com feature for my analysis at @thexylom.com! Thank you Nathan :)
Map of H-1B visa holders at research institutions
Most of the H-1B attention has been on companies, but many visa holders are at research institutions studying topics that might be of use to society. From Alex Ip for The Xylom: The Xylom’s analysi…
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September 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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For members, this month's visualization roundup is up flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/p...
Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup
Here are tools you can use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Launch day 🚀

We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!

Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!

Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Salary and Occupation flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/s...
Salary and Occupation
Salaries vary by occupation. These charts show the spread.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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hannahrecht.bsky.social
🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs.
Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates.

I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.
Tracking Census Dataset Changes
See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.
www.hrecht.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The seven-year itch is more like the 1- and 5-year itch flowingdata.com/projects/202...
Multi-Year Itch
Is the seven-year itch, made popular by a movie from 1955, a real thing?
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August 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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"Call me old-fashioned, but I’d rather have a poorly-written, incomplete obituary from a loved one than a pristine-looking convergence of words from a machine" @flowingdata.com: flowingdata.com/2025/08/06/a...
Artificial obituaries
Drew Harwell, reporting for the Washington Post: Artificial intelligence tools are not just reshaping how we work, learn and live. They’re also changing what happens after we die, as families and f…
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August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A petulant child who accuses you of cheating whenever he loses.
August 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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hansilowang.bsky.social
BREAKING: President Trump is calling for the firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after the federal statistical agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report
I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!
August 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM