Nathan Yau

For Wired, Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk and Netzpolitik.org, check out location data for overseas military personnel that is probably too easy to buy.

There was a brouhaha a couple months ago over research that suggested black plastic spatulas spew poison into our food.

Here's the current landscape of supermarket parent companies and their subsidiaries — national chains, regional, local, co-ops, specialty, ethnic, and discount.

As you can imagine, Elon Musk, the owner of X, has a prominent influence on the social media platform. For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill, Trisha Thadani, and Kevin Schaul show the scale

Not to dwell on Musk, but I was reminded of this dot plot by the Economist that shows when he posted on Twitter/X and how much. The volume picked up a bit post-acquisition.

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages can seem objective. David Spiegelhalter argues that this is impossible

Hi. Nathan Yau here. This is the Process , the newsletter for FlowingData members about making and using visualization and data.

Researchers at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome estimated the time it takes to walk to places for amenities such as education, healthcare, and restaurants: Proximity-based cities have att…

This is a fun one by Dylan Moriarty for the Washington Post. Punch in your city to see the percentage of Christmas days (or Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, or Winter Solstice) since 1940 when it snowed.

Jordan Cunliffe uses embroidery to explore and visualize data. This year, headed towards Christmas, he's been posting one stitch per day for a Data Advent Calendar