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Nathan Yau

@flowingdata

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Joined March 2008
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis…
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Out of New York and California and into Florida and Texas. Population drops and gains in every state flowingdata.com/2026/01/29/p…
Population drops and gains in every state

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.

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New Year's resolutions for men and women that we will definitely follow through with this year. Women emphasized happiness, eating healthy, losing weight, and paying down debt more than men did flowingdata.com/2026/01/05/n…
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Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025 flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/b…
Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025

Many data things were made this year. These are my favorites.

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Who we choose to spend our time with flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t…
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Who earns a higher salary than you and the jobs they work flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w…
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Visualize the characteristics in the data for a clearer message.
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Spot the difference flowingdata.com/2025/11/06/p…
Spot the difference

Spot the difference

This week is about highlighting differences and visualizing characteristics over the data itself.

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How men and women spend their days, a view into responsibilities and priorities flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/s…
How Men and Women Spend Their Days

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.

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Note the differences by day of week and employment status
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Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup flowingdata.com/2025/10/30/p…
Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup

Visualization Tools and Resources, October 2025 Roundup

This is the good stuff for October.

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What qualifies as middle-income? It depends on how much people make where you are and household size flowingdata.com/2025/10/23/m…
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Cost of Living, by State and Spending Category flowingdata.com/2025/10/16/c… It's sortin' time.
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How much alcohol Americans drink - by sex, age, and state flowingdata.com/2025/10/02/a…
How Much Alcohol Americans Drink

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?

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Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/p…
Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup

Visualization Tools, Datasets, and Learning Resources – September 2025 Roundup

Here are tools you can use, datasets to poke at, and resources to learn from.

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Salary and occupation with our good friend the beeswarm chart. Heavy median salary on the lower end, bumps every $20k, and separation past $100k.
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Find your job's salary range flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/s…
Salary and Occupation

Salary and Occupation

Salaries vary by occupation. These charts show the spread.

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The seven-year itch is more like the 1- and 5-year itch flowingdata.com/projects/202…
Multi-Year Itch

Multi-Year Itch

Is the seven-year itch, made popular by a movie from 1955, a real thing?

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Staying cautiously pessimistic flowingdata.com/2025/07/24/p…
Visualization and the machine

Visualization and the machine

I am sorry in advance, but I have to talk through something you are probably tired of hearing about: AI. For data visualization.

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Most common use of time throughout the day, by age and sex flowingdata.com/2025/07/17/m… Never a missed opportunity to let people see the demographic groups most relevant to them.
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Marital status distributions have changed with life expectancy and shifts in priorities in relationships flowingdata.com/2025/07/09/m…
Marital Status Shifts in the United States

Marital Status Shifts in the United States

People stay single longer, marry later, divorce less, and widow older.

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Visualization tools, datasets, and learning resources for June flowingdata.com/2025/06/26/p…
Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2025 Roundup

Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, June 2025 Roundup

This is the good stuff for June: tools to use, datasets to analyze, and resources to learn from.

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