Nathan Yau is an American statistician and data visualization expert.
Nathan Yau | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nathan Chun-Yin Yau |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley (BS) UCLA (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | FlowingData blog |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | U.S. Census |
| Thesis | An Online Tool for Personal Data Collection and Exploration (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Mark Hansen |
| Website | flowingdata |
Early life
editNathan Chun-Yin Yau grew up in Fresno, California.[1][2]
He received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He graduated in 2007 with a Master of Science and in 2013 with a PhD in statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1][3][4]
His dissertation was titled "An Online Tool for Personal Data Collection and Exploration" and focused on self-surveillance techniques.[2][5] Yau's earlier self-surveillance work on the "Personal Environmental Impact Report" was featured in Yau's chapter of the book Beautiful Data, published in 2009.[6][7]
Career
editYau is known for his blog FlowingData in which he publishes writing and tutorials on information design and analytics, as well as visualizations and data science-related projects created by other professionals.[3][8][9]
He is the author of books "Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics" (2011) and "Data Points: Visualization That Means Something" (2013).[8][10][11]
Since 2014, Yau has worked at the U.S. Census as a research mathematical statistician.[5]
Selected publications
edit- Yau, Nathan (2011). Visualize This (First ed.). John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 9780470944882. OCLC 729943780.
- Yau, Nathan (2013). Data points : visualization that means something (First ed.). John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 9781118462195. OCLC 871319880.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Extraordinary Minds". UCLA College Magazine. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles. 2017. p. 31. Retrieved March 10, 2021 – via Issuu.
- ^ a b "An Online Tool for Personal Data Collection and Exploration". 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
- ^ a b "Here's how you're probably going to die – in a stunning visualisation". The Daily Telegraph. January 19, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ "Visualizing Data And Telling Compelling Stories With OkCupid And FlowingData". Fast Company. August 8, 2011. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ a b "Our Researchers | Nathan Yau". United States Census. August 11, 2016. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
- ^ "Chapter 1. Seeing Your Life in Data". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
- ^ Segaran, Toby; Hammerbacher, Jeff (2009). Beautiful Data: the stories behind elegant data solutions (First ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. ISBN 9780596157111. OCLC 827947721.
- ^ a b "Visualize This: How to Tell Stories with Data". Brain Pickings. July 26, 2011. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ "The Art of Flowing Data: An interview with Dr Nathan Yau". Statistics Views. November 25, 2015. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ "The Top 30 Best Data Visualization Books on Our Reading List". Solutions Review. November 12, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
- ^ "Infographics: Winds of Change". The Economist. July 6, 2013. Archived from the original on July 15, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2019.