Nathan Yau

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So happy to receive a copy of @flowingdata.com’s second edition of ‘Visualize This’. Nathan has been a permanent presence in the field since I started out and this book perfectly distills those years of experience, exposure, skill, and practice he’s put in to supporting and celebrating this field.

Visualize This, Second Edition is a guide for my past self – a much needed update to a book written by my less experienced other past self flowingdata.com/2024/04/12/v...

Visualize This, Second Edition: Updating a Visualization Guide for My Past Selfflowingdata.com A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize This as a how-to guide to my past self. It was for someone who was familiar with visualization but was stuck on the part where it&#82…

Histogram! flowingdata.com/2024/04/09/a...

Ages of the People We Choose to Live With and Marryflowingdata.com Variation kicks in when you look at the later years, consider multiple marriages, divorce, separation, and opposite-sex versus same-sex relationships. This chart breaks it all down.

Apparently there are more golf courses than McDonald's, which seemed surprising, so I had to map it. The difference mostly comes from the spread of golf courses outside cities. More green = more golf. More yellow = more McDonald's. flowingdata.com/2024/02/28/m...

Searching for the equivalent of Asian doctor/engineer

Race and Occupationflowingdata.com Asian workers are more than three times more likely to be physicians. What other jobs jump out? What’s it like for other races and ethnicity?

I wrote Visualize This a digital lifetime ago. After making charts for a decade and a half, I wrote a second edition with a refined process and all new examples and tools.

A New FlowingData Book, Second Editionflowingdata.com I wrote a book! It’s the second edition of Visualize This. It focuses on the how of visualization with practical examples that you can apply to your own data. You’ll learn how to use a …

Some jobs are worked commonly by people of a certain race or ethnicity more than others, like manicurists who are 65% Asian. Chart of all the jobs:

Commonness of Races in Different Occupationsflowingdata.com Some occupations are more race-dominant than others. This is the percentage of employed persons 16 years and older who are a given race or ethnicity for each.

Happy holidays everyone. Hope you have a good one.

@lisacmuth.bsky.social thanks for the nudge!

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