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...
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
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
How much alcohol Americans drink flowingdata.com/2025/10/02/a...
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
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
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
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
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
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
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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
Got my first @flowingdata.com feature for my analysis at @thexylom.com! Thank you Nathan :)
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
For members, this month's visualization roundup is up flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/p...
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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 📈
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
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 📈
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 📈
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
Salary and Occupation flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/s...
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🚀 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.
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
🚀 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.
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.
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
The seven-year itch is more like the 1- and 5-year itch flowingdata.com/projects/202...
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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
"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...
A petulant child who accuses you of cheating whenever he loses.
August 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
A petulant child who accuses you of cheating whenever he loses.
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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
August 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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
Gold star for visuals.
Congress has passed hundreds of laws protecting federal public lands over the past century through bipartisan efforts and with the support of local governments. Now, Trump’s administration is pushing policies and legislation that upend these protections.
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Eroding protections for public lands
Trump policies reshape the role of federally owned land, against the tide of U.S. public opinion
www.reuters.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Gold star for visuals.
Most common use of time throughout the day, by age and sex flowingdata.com/2025/07/17/m...
Most common use of time throughout the day
See how common activities were for a given time of day, age, and sex.
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July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Most common use of time throughout the day, by age and sex flowingdata.com/2025/07/17/m...
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Can't be stressed enough where $9 billion sits in comparison to where gov spending is being shifted.
(Chart from May, so not exactly in line with the final bill)
(Chart from May, so not exactly in line with the final bill)
July 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can't be stressed enough where $9 billion sits in comparison to where gov spending is being shifted.
(Chart from May, so not exactly in line with the final bill)
(Chart from May, so not exactly in line with the final bill)
If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers
July 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers
Marital status distributions have changed with life expectancy and shifts in priorities in relationships flowingdata.com/2025/07/09/m...
Marital Status Shifts in the United States
People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Marital status distributions have changed with life expectancy and shifts in priorities in relationships flowingdata.com/2025/07/09/m...
National Weather Service, very important.
July 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
National Weather Service, very important.
18 years. FD is a grown-up now. Watch out, world.
June 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
18 years. FD is a grown-up now. Watch out, world.