FlowingData
Nathan Yau
Nathan Yau’s site on visualization and statistics: his own charts, a roundup of good work elsewhere, and tutorials on how to make them.
What you will find
- Original visualizations, often on how people spend their time and live their lives
- A regular roundup of notable visualizations from other sites
- Tutorials, many of them in R, mostly for members
What we can learn from it
- 01Show the process, not only the result
- 02One question per graphic keeps it readable
Chart types you will meet there
Beeswarm plot
Packs every observation along the axis without overlap, so density shows as the swarm’s width.
Streamgraph
A stacked area around a wandering centre line, showing the ebb and flow of many categories over time.
Line chart
Shows how a measure changes across an ordered, continuous axis, usually time.
Similar sites
Datawrapper Blog
The blog of the charting tool Datawrapper: weekly charts with the reasoning behind them, and long guides on chart design.
Storytelling with Data
A blog, podcast and books on communicating with data, known for before and after makeovers of business charts.
Nightingale
The journal of the Data Visualization Society, named after Florence Nightingale: essays, interviews and history from people who make charts.