Nathan Yau
@flowingdata.com
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Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
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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
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
https://flowingdata.com/projects/dishonest-charts/
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How men and women spend their days, a view into responsibilities and priorities between the sexes
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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.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/spend-days-men-women-2024/
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Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn
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If we define middle-class income based on median, a la
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, what qualifies as middle income changes by state and household size
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Amanda Shendruk
21 days ago
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...
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It's not just you. Uncertainty is through the roof.
The world is a lot right now.
https://www.not-ship.com/its-not-just-you-uncertainty-is-through-the-roof-2/
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It's World Statistics Day, only once every five years, almost like the Olympics but even more rare
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World Statistics Day 2025
Official website for World Statistics Day 2025
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/2025/index.html
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Cost of Living, by State and Spending Category
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It's sortin' time.
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How much alcohol Americans drink
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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?
https://flowingdata.com/2025/10/02/alcohol-2024/
about 1 month ago
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NPR
about 1 month ago
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:
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about 1 month ago
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
about 1 month ago
Got my first
@flowingdata.com
feature for my analysis at
@thexylom.com
! Thank you Nathan :)
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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…
https://flowingdata.com/2025/09/26/map-of-h-1b-visa-holders-at-research-institutions/
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For members, this month's visualization roundup is up
flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/p...
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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup
Here are tools you can use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/process-357-roundup/
about 2 months ago
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Erwan Rivault
2 months ago
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 📈
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Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
https://chartle.cc
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Salary and Occupation
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Salary and Occupation
Salaries vary by occupation. These charts show the spread.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/salary-and-occupation-2024/
2 months ago
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Hannah Recht
3 months ago
🚀 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.
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Tracking Census Dataset Changes
See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.
https://www.hrecht.com/census-api-datasets/
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The seven-year itch is more like the 1- and 5-year itch
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Multi-Year Itch
Is the seven-year itch, made popular by a movie from 1955, a real thing?
https://flowingdata.com/projects/2025/marital-status/
3 months ago
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Drew Harwell
3 months ago
"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
:
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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…
https://flowingdata.com/2025/08/06/artificial-obituaries/
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A petulant child who accuses you of cheating whenever he loses.
3 months ago
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)
3 months ago
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
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Gold star for visuals.
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Most common use of time throughout the day, by age and sex
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Most common use of time throughout the day
See how common activities were for a given time of day, age, and sex.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/07/17/most-common-use-time/
4 months ago
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Moriarty Maps
4 months ago
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)
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If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers
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Marital status distributions have changed with life expectancy and shifts in priorities in relationships
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Marital Status Shifts in the United States
People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/07/09/marital-status-shifts-in-the-united-states/
4 months ago
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National Weather Service, very important.
4 months ago
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18 years. FD is a grown-up now. Watch out, world.
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Matchmaking by browser history. Data for GOOD.
browser.dating
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Browser.dating
Browser.dating The dating website matching people based on their browser history - by Dries Depoorter
https://browser.dating
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It is always a welcome reminder that money can’t buy everything.
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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/...
5 months ago
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Jo Wood
5 months ago
Do you have an interest in the bridge between academic
#datavis
and industry/professional practice of visualization? 🚨We are recruiting for a Business Development Manager in London for our £10m centre for doctoral training in datavis. 🚨 Details here:
www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
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Details | City St George's, University of London
Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London
https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/apply/details.html?jobId=5543&jobTitle=Business%20Development%20Manager%2C%20DIVERSE%20CDT
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Beautiful work by
@alv9n.com
on conversations and interactions between strangers, with signature anecdote to aggregate transitions and a closing personal note
pudding.cool/2025/06/hell...
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30 minutes with a stranger
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change
https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/
5 months ago
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Please remember that with great power comes great responsibility
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Bring Swift Charts to the third dimension - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Learn how to bring your 2D Swift Charts to the third dimension with Chart3D and visualize your data sets from completely new...
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/313/
5 months ago
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Looking for data on biggest clown shows in the history of the world.
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The most common jobs by age and sex
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6 months ago
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NBA teams are undefeated when they outscore their opponents. Tonight is no exception.
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Upside Down World by
@rsimmon.bsky.social
is a reminder that there is no spoon. I mean there is no up.
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"Shouldn't you be married by now?" It depends.
flowingdata.com/2025/05/15/m...
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Married by When
Because everyone who is 30 years and older loves getting asked when they’re going to settle down and get married.
https://flowingdata.com/2025/05/15/married-by-when/
6 months ago
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World map with south on top and Brazil in center, from Brazil's stat agency. Do all countries do this?
6 months ago
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Into the silhouette traces by
@graphics.reuters.com
to show Met Gala dress patterns over the years
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
6 months ago
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Internet Roadtrip, a street view drive where the internet decides where to go very ten seconds.
@neal.fun
keeps bringing the joy with that technical imagination
neal.fun/internet-roa...
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Internet Roadtrip
Let's take a streetview roadtrip
https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip/
6 months ago
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Alyson Hurt
6 months ago
Join my team at NPR! We're hiring for a senior graphics reporter. Remote-friendly (in the US).
grnh.se/f78153425us
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Senior Graphics Reporter
Remote
https://grnh.se/f78153425us
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Deportation Data Project is tracking apprehensions at the border
deportationdata.org
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Deportation Data Project
https://deportationdata.org
6 months ago
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Jer Thorp
7 months ago
Ok, here's a Monday wish. I'd like to get both of my summer Binoculars to Binomials cohorts filled up this week. This would significantly lower my anxiety levels, which are currently... very elevated.
www.jerthorp.me/learning
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Honored!
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Jenna C. Hill
7 months ago
NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊:
www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to:
[email protected]
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Notice of Changes
Notices of changes are formal public announcements of planned services changes to applications and other products.
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes
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It's okay, men. You chop those onions.
flowingdata.com/2025/04/17/a...
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American Crying
People cry for different reasons and some tend to cry more than others. What makes people cry the most?
https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/17/american-crying/
7 months ago
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NPR
7 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
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Simulation + sliders = ⭐
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Katie Mack
7 months ago
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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With stock markets (and your retirement savings) going every which way right now, the long view is a source of comfort. Biggest drops and recovery times for the S&P 500:
flowingdata.com/2025/04/08/s...
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Now taking movie suggestions centered around existential crises. Thanks in advance.
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