Nathan Yau
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Nathan Yau
@flowingdata.com
Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
Difference charts to show the differences between different groups, which show difference in days.
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 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...
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
California pulls to the top for most expensive and Arkansas pulls down for lowest cost of living overall
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Montana, I was not familiar.
October 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
October 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
With our old friend the beeswarm, we get a bottom-heavy distribution with bumps at the round numbers, about every $20k up to $100k in median salary. Then the jobs grow sparse.
September 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Still have this hanging out on the wall
August 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My favorite bit is the stacks with a Sankey flourish and water lines to indicate flow. This could've easily been five simple stacked bar multiples, but this little part shows that they care.
July 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
They went with the @scottreinhard.bsky.social flare, using 3-D elevation scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-...
July 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Notes of the 1870 Statistical Atlas of the United States, especially in the titles www.loc.gov/item/05019329/
July 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Always be filtering.
July 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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
National Weather Service, very important.
July 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Neal Agarwal took it the other direction with an elevator to space neal.fun/space-elevat...
June 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In 2010, Bill Marsh used a similar method to show the depths of the ocean in the context of the Deepwater Horizon oil well archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
June 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A long graphic shows the scale and depth of the bunker-buster bombs. Scroll and scroll more, past the height of a 22-story building www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The most common jobs by age and sex flowingdata.com/2024/10/02/p...
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Upside Down World by @rsimmon.bsky.social is a reminder that there is no spoon. I mean there is no up. www.mapcenter.com/store/p/upsi...
May 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
World map with south on top and Brazil in center, from Brazil's stat agency. Do all countries do this?
May 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Takes me back to the Cox classic from 2011 on dress sizes, mixed with hurricane traces
May 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Into the silhouette traces by @graphics.reuters.com to show Met Gala dress patterns over the years www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
May 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Bloomberg with the maps www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
May 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Yeah... same in safari, chrome, and firefox. No ad blockers, etc
April 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM