title: Nathan Yau
text: # Nathan Yau
  
  Nathan Yau is an American statistician and data visualization expert.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Nathan Chun-Yin Yau grew up in Fresno, California.
  
  He received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated in 2007 with a Master of Science and in 2013 with a PhD in statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
  
  His dissertation was titled "An Online Tool for Personal Data Collection and Exploration" and focused on self-surveillance techniques. 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.
  
  ## 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.
  
  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).
  
  Since 2014, Yau has worked at the U.S. Census as a research mathematical statistician.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * 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.
  