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==