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Nathan Yau

@flowingdata.com

Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com

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Why Americans are unemployed, by age an education flowingdata.com/2026/03/05/u...

It seems there will need to be a +1 for the laid off category as of a few minutes ago.

05.03.2026 19:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

05.03.2026 12:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 976 ๐Ÿ” 533 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20 ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
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๐ŸฎHappy Lantern Festival!๐Ÿฎ
This year we made a sky lantern (ๅคฉ็‡ˆ) interactive to bring the experience at your fingertips!
Customize a lantern with your own wishes and learn fun Taiwanese โ€œ Horse Yearโ€ sayings. May all your digital wishes come true!
taiwandatastories.com/lantern-fest...

03.03.2026 17:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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These visual breakdowns of everyday objects by Bryan Macomber are super satisfying mechanical-pencil.com

"An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"

26.02.2026 21:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 82 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A frame using satellite imagery showing a geographic region: Is it a map or a photo?

23.02.2026 22:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Data Reporter Remote, United States

Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats.
US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley
More info:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
#DDJ #JournalismJobs

19.02.2026 23:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 35 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meaning behind the food by Taiwan Data Stories circa 2023 taiwandatastories.com/lunar-new-ye...

17.02.2026 17:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy new year ๐Ÿงง๐ŸŽ๐Ÿš

17.02.2026 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amid the hundreds of colleagues weโ€™ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right nowโ€”threading here:

04.02.2026 20:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 212 ๐Ÿ” 87 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

Snatch up the WaPo folks. A lot of talent entered free agency today.

04.02.2026 19:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bar chart with exaggerated change between two years by incorrectly starting y-axis at 80.2.

Bar chart with exaggerated change between two years by incorrectly starting y-axis at 80.2.

From the White House, a bar chart that starts at 80.2 to exaggerate change incorrectly.

Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

03.02.2026 23:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

30.01.2026 15:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 232 ๐Ÿ” 107 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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Population drops and gains in every state Most states gained population, but a few saw more people move out than move in, based on the newest estimates from the Census Bureau.

Out of New York and California and into Florida and Texas. Population drops and gains in every state flowingdata.com/2026/01/29/p...

29.01.2026 18:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Timelines for those still alive from โ€œWe Didnโ€™t Start the Fireโ€ In his song โ€œWe Didnโ€™t Start the Fireโ€, Billy Joel references 57 people. Three of them are still alive.

Dumb times, dumb charts. Timelines for the people references in We Didn't Start the Fire flowingdata.com/2026/01/20/t...

20.01.2026 17:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Are 3,000 ICE agents โ€˜disproportionateโ€™ to Twin Cities police forces? Their presence is bigger than the 10 largest metro police departments combined.

Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten:

There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.

9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

13.01.2026 22:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 290 ๐Ÿ” 156 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer

obumbratta.com/colour

07.01.2026 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 258 ๐Ÿ” 62 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why

07.01.2026 22:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1538 ๐Ÿ” 437 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41 ๐Ÿ“Œ 122
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New Year's resolutions for men and women that we will definitely follow through with this year flowingdata.com/2026/01/05/n...

05.01.2026 19:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Happy new year everyone

01.01.2026 08:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Made my real people.

The day I accidentally pick an AI-generated project for this list, idea to finished thing, is the day I hang up the boots.

31.12.2025 22:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025 Many data things were made this year. These are my favorites.

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025, a.k.a. my favorites flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/b...

31.12.2025 21:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who we spend our time with is just as important as how we spend our time. With age, sex, and day of week, there are shifts in who we choose to be with

flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t...

18.12.2025 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 26 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

10.12.2025 16:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2641 ๐Ÿ” 913 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 78 ๐Ÿ“Œ 87

Oh gross

10.12.2025 18:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Who makes more than you and the jobs they have, depends on your annual salary of course flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w...

03.12.2025 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Fifteen Years

Very good.

25.11.2025 22:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Bye doge.

24.11.2025 21:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maps Show How Latinos Who Shifted Right in 2024 Snapped Back Left in 2025

NEW: New Jerseyโ€™s township data is (mostly) in, so
@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJโ€™s blue shift/pendulum swing

The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governorโ€™s race

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

15.11.2025 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 148 ๐Ÿ” 27 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Welcome back, federal workers.

13.11.2025 15:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's a relatively wide difference in work (maybe part-time vs. full-time) and socializing that show higher percentages for men. Although the relative scales for each chart make that less obvious.

05.11.2025 17:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0