Biography:Nathan Yau
Nathan Yau | |
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| Born | Nathan Chun-Yin Yau Fresno, California |
| 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 |
Nathan Yau is an American statistician and data visualization expert.
Early life
Nathan 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
Yau 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
- Yau, Nathan (2011). Visualize This (First ed.). John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 9780470944882. OCLC 729943780. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729943780.
- Yau, Nathan (2013). Data points : visualization that means something (First ed.). John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 9781118462195. OCLC 871319880. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/871319880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Extraordinary Minds". UCLA College Magazine (Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles): 31. 2017. https://issuu.com/uclacollegecom/docs/cm_summer_2017/31. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "An Online Tool for Personal Data Collection and Exploration". 2013. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18h0j9xh.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Here's how you're probably going to die – in a stunning visualisation". January 19, 2016. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12108615/Heres-how-youre-probably-going-to-die-in-a-stunning-visualisation.html.
- ↑ "Visualizing Data And Telling Compelling Stories With OkCupid And FlowingData". Fast Company. August 8, 2011. https://www.fastcompany.com/1771622/visualizing-data-and-telling-compelling-stories-okcupid-and-flowingdata.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Our Researchers | Nathan Yau". 2016-08-11. https://www.census.gov/research/researchers/profile.php?cv_sub=div&cv_profile=3983.
- ↑ "Chapter 1. Seeing Your Life in Data". https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beautiful-data/9780596801656/ch01.html.
- ↑ Segaran, Toby; Hammerbacher, Jeff (2009). Beautiful Data: the stories behind elegant data solutions (First ed.). Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. ISBN 9780596157111. OCLC 827947721. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/827947721.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Visualize This: How to Tell Stories with Data". July 26, 2011. https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/07/26/visualize-this-nathan-yau/.
- ↑ "The Art of Flowing Data: An interview with Dr Nathan Yau". November 25, 2015. https://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/8607051/The-Art-of-Flowing-Data-An-interview-with-Dr-Nathan-Yau.html.
- ↑ "The Top 30 Best Data Visualization Books on Our Reading List". November 12, 2019. https://solutionsreview.com/business-intelligence/best-data-visualization-books-on-amazon-you-should-read/.
- ↑ "Infographics: Winds of Change". The Economist. July 6, 2013. https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21580446-revolution-taking-place-how-visualise-information-winds-change.
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