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This is how rare it is for a hit song to be credited to an all-women songwriting team.
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This is not a story. We made a browser extension to visualize how much each person is talking in Goo
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Introducing CRUTCH, Our New Metric For Asterisking NBA Champions.
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We break down J Dilla's signature off-beat timefeel.
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Country music is powered by women like Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris, but even they are barely p
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Alvin loved his grandmother's fresh kimchi. But as he aged, could he rediscover the defining flavor
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We unsubscribed from 16 subscription services and documented the ways companies made it challenging.
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We made a short daily photo location guessing game that is a mashup of GeoGuessr and Wordle.
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Portland, Maine, or Oregon? We calculated what place someone is most likely referring to, depending
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We used statistics to find out which NBA players have had the greatest unexpected performances.
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We explored university syllabi to identify the literary canon.
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Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we
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A journey of emotional awareness, where we uncover the power of naming and visualizing your feelings
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How does where you grow up impact your economic opportunity? Our author returns to his roots.
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Watch women's hoops signature sneakers morph from Swoopes to Stewie.
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One random person a day gets the chance to play against the internet in a game of words. Can you bea
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Take an audio tour of Mexico City, seen through its street vendors.
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We watched 100 episodes of The Big Bang Theory to figure out what the government in China censors, a
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Is TikTok helping artists become commercially successful, or does the medium present a new opportuni
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Ever wonder what happens when you press play on your favorite song? We look how artists get paid fro
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Curious what your teachers never taught you about the Aztec Gods? Here's an illustrated introduction
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In a collaboration with Vox, we tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral.
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We’re tracking heat records in 400 U.S. cities, and you can look up your city.
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We found this cool study about age and randomness, but we think it is flawed. Can you help us reprod
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We looked at more than 200 banknotes to see who’s represented on today’s currencies around the world
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Do movies with more coughs win Best Picture? A near flawless expulsion-based model that predicts a w
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How many days since a record temperature high? Check the always-updating scoreboard.
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What could have been for your favorite NBA team? A data-driven revisionist history of the NBA draft.
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Want to make your writing more accessible? Algorithms might not be the answer.
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Analyzing more than 382,000 headlines to see how women are represented (or misrepresented) in the ne
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We tried to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest by making AI-generated captions.
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Learn how to hack your digital DNA to achieve the mid-level corporate career of your dreams.
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We investigated 200 crackers to learn about food allergies and labelling. Warning: may contain troub
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We scraped the web to track one of the internet’s oldest images — one that lives on without the subj
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Through data and interviews, learn why the card game Spades is the perfect metaphor for the African-
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For groups to succeed, sometimes one person will shoulder more than their fair share of the work. Ju
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A visual history of Rickrolling — millions of comments, posts, and links — that’s never gonna let yo
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A story about hearing yourself in same-gender pop lyrics for the first time and tracking it with dat
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How many artists overshadow their band after going solo? We crunched the numbers.
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To help you get out of your geographic music bubble, we found the songs that are most popular far aw
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Science stepped up: on average there were ~11 new coronavirus articles coming out each hour, every h
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Not all nudes are the same. We looked at how names for 6,816 makeup foundations can reveal bias in t
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This model attempts to predict a wine’s quality. We detect a note of math, with a hint of 0s and 1s.
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What do you do when your friends are sick of hearing about your breakup? Use a supercomputer to find
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Our auditory analyst compares 770 artists’ live recordings with their and studio counterparts. Music
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We tracked every time someone says "cool" in community. Cool. Cool. Cool.
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Clue: We crunched the data on this controversial cookie and condiment crossword clue. Answer: Oreo.
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How bad is your Spotify or Apple music? Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste.
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Candles and LEDs don’t pay for themselves. We’ll demonstrate just exactly how much work goes into wa
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These playable mini crosswords let you get a feel for who gets included (and excluded) as clues and
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Crosswords are known for being too old, too white, and too male. We backed that up with data.
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Need a cute animal fix? Here’s a menagerie of live-streams from your favorite zoos and aquariums all
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Philly openly reports about complaints against police officers. But we found that public doesn’t equ
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Take the quiz: Can you identify when these photos were taken? It may not be as easy as it sounds.
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We tracked K-pop group sizes and member roles over modern K-pop’s 30-year history. BTS Army click he
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A data comic to help you understand how the dance floor is generationally divided.
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Using 50 years of data, we explored economic mobility and determined just how rigid the middle class
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We examined 271 presidential candidate branding designs from 1968–2020. Here’s who goes beyond the r
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To help you clear out your inbox, we’ve compiled a data-driven newsletter of popular links in other
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We quizzed people on how well they recognized ’90s songs by their birth year. Britney and Whitney ha
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What physical traits are most tied to gender in literature? Eye roll: Women are all soft thighs and
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Nearly 14.6M properties in America are in a flood zone, with more likely in the near future. We mapp
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Using baby name data, we found the names that could be at risk of becomming future "Karens" in 10, 2
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Where do Tripadvisor reviewers go when they’re staying local? Our guide to 74,762 US attractions wil
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Do you smell what we’re cooking? It’s stories, facts, and pixel art drawings of over 200 masked wres
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Take this quiz to see if you’re better than others your age at recognizing songs from history.
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What happens when you combine music, a monkey, Joe Rogan, and probability? You get this experiment.
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When it comes to sanitizing lyrics, where does Kidz Bop draw the line? (This was pre-WAP though; now
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To learn about the US’ evolving priorities, norms and biases, we collected every question to ever ap
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Emojis are nice, but GIFs have range. We looked at how we use these looped clips of celebs to convey
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These are the cities where you’ll need your umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh. Seattle may be less ra
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Find your new jam here. We mapped several month of #1 songs in 3,000 places.
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Do authors write where they know? We calculated the distance between where authors lived and where t
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America has often been called a nation of immigrants. We mapped where they settled.
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Will saying sorry save your reputation? We quantified the lasting impact of a YouTube appology and c
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Ranking player performance against pay, we found the worst, highest-paid NBA player, ever. Sorry, Me
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From beehives, to afros, to bumpits: we looked at 30,000 yearbook photos to officially crown the "Bi
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Do you "lol?" Or "haha?’ Or "hehe?" We charted the usage, evolution, and perception of digital laugh
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When an elected official promises to transform prosecution, do their actions live up to their words?
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Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the number of exported adoptable dogs. Here’s where the dogs in y
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We’ve devised pub crawl routes between UK watering holes of the same name. One Red Lion down, 338 to
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Is “ass” the most complicated word in English? We tracked down 201 historic usages and compared it t
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Headlines say millennials killed napkins, marriage, and Applebees. We say, "you’re welcome." What’s
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Are men singing higher in pop songs today? Biebs, the JoBros, the Weeknd, we’re coming for you... wi
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Are book covers starting to look the same? We organized over 5,000 top-seling book covers by visual
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Our 2019 hipster summer reading list will introduce you to an artisanal selection of obscure books b
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Using news coverage, we plotted how one highly unethical study on vaccines has caused outsized, irre
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Sit back and relax as we take you on an updated journey through every Billboard Top 5 hit to find mu
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We made a map that replaces UK city names with their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
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We made a map that replaces US city names with their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
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Billie Jean is not my lover, but it’s one of the names we tracked for this project. Here’s how often
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Want to access the raw data behind an academic paper? OK. Has it been a few years? Yeah... good luck
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Since the 1950s, hyphenated last names in pro-sports have been on the rise. The WNBA leads the way,
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The NBA has a defensive three seconds problem. We tracked how often players are camped in the paint.
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We looked at 19 years of covers to see if Vogue represents women of all shades. You can guess how th
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Why are European regions shifting their borders? We follow the money.
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Computers now have four different methods to determine what you’ll type now/next/nexis
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We looked at every political party platform between 1840 and 2016 to find how often women’s issues a
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Can you spell the hardest names in the NBA? Or will you miss and spell H-O-R-S-E?
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How do you measure who’s the biggest pop star? We tackle that question a bunch of different ways.
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Do high school basketball stars live up to the hype? Here’s how many find success in the NBA.
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Think Gyllenhaal is a hard name to spell? It gets worse. Here are the many ways to misspell big name
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School dress codes send the wrong messages about womens’ and girls’ bodies. An analysis of 481 polic
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Who’s the most prolific rapper of all time? We try to answer that by measure vocabulary. Happy debat
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These are the countries that have most preoccupied Americans since 1900, according to New York Times
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We created a brief history of the past 100 years from New York Times headlines. And yes, there are w
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This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities. Hint: perspective helps.
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Because you just can’t get enough of them, we found every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980.
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Dear Abby, I’m looking for an analysis of 20,000 advice column letters. Sincerely, Curious. Hi Curio
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Welcome to Titletown! Discover the most successful cities across baseball, basketball, football, hoc
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We charted new terrain in these 3D maps of human population.
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From Cardi B to Carson Wentz: we charted the path to fame from Wikipedia pageviews.
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Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs from its the first release in 1985 to the presen
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Here’s who was the most popular person on Wikipedia ever day in 2018.
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Who has more emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo-rap or Dashboard Confessional? We measured each albu
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Let’s get reel: who’s using film and who’s using digital in the movie industry?
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We went there. A data investigation into the travesty that is women’s pockets.
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What Wikipedia pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die. RIP.
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The job automation crisis isn’t as simple as turning truck driver’s into developers. We break it dow
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Instead of measuring a city by it’s GDP or population, what if we measure it by its airport traffic?
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No TMI here, just 20,759 people describing their experiences with contraception... and us charting i
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We looked at 1.2 million parliamentary speeches to show how gender representation changes the conver
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We looked at 500,000 congressional speeches to show how gender representation changes the conversati
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We mapped how "gayborhoods" are divided by gender. It’s true: men are from Chelsea, women are from P
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Fenty is a champion for makeup inclusivity, but how do other brands compare? We charted their founda
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The good, the rad, and the gnarly. We took a look at what makes a skate soundtrack.
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A supercut of the most-viewed NBA plays from 2017–18. Warning: this video contains a high dosage of
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Think you’ve heard that before? Turns out, hit songs are becoming less musically diverse.
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We baked the most average chocolate chip cookie. Recipes written by computers — what could go wrong?
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Which athletes qualify as one-hit wonders? We charted the greatest single-season anomalies in the la
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Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. We take on the birthday paradox.
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In a love letter to NYC and Seattle, we pinpoint the types of businesses that distinguish one neighb
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We watched Ali Wong’s Baby Cobra too many times and charted out how she built the routine around a l
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Here’s an interactive guide that introduces and explores waveforms. Volume most defintiely on.
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We mapped which countries have laws and guidelines around declaring brain death.
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What is the taco capital of the US? Where does BBQ reign supreme? These maps have you covered.
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Via postcards from the Curiosity Rover on Mars, we prove that talking about the weather is a univers
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There are three sides to every cable news story: MSNBC’s, Fox News’, and CNN’s. The contrast in on-s
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We can all agree that drain hair is gross. But it’s a thin line between love and hate for more than
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A visual walkthrough of how we see Earth from space through the eyes of satellites. Spoiler alert: i
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How would you define an NBA superteam? We couldn’t decide so we built this tool to give you the powe
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What is black and white and red all over? The racial gap between a newspaper’s staff and the communi
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In a musial language that’s gone worldwide, we uncover the words that are "most hip-hop"
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If you exclude Ira Glass’ voice, who gets the most airtime on This American Life: men or women? Stay
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In 2017, we mapped the cities and places with the worst access to abortion based on driving times.
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Men "gallop" and women "giggle," at least according to the gendered tropes found in 2,000 scripts.
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We measured the dialogue from every episode of The Office and it sure is a mouthful. (“That’s what s
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I’m dining solo, I’m dining solo, solo (Jason Derulo voice). We looked at the dining habits and comp
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Female characters are largely absent from superhero comics — but when they are included, how are the
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Everytime a job is automated, the Republican Party benefits.
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What’s best for animals in aquariums? We look to the past & present to gauge the future of captive w
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A story about how film plots mirror (or shape) historical events.
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Has American literature made progress toward gender equality, or is commercial success still linked
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Hurricanes, bankruptcies, and the World Series are all said to spark baby booms.But is there any tru
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In the words of Ms. Spears, "Oops, I did it again." We show how pop lyrics are getting more repetiti
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What’s the most timeless NBA play? We turn to YouTube views to determine which have the most replay
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Let’s raise a pint to the microbrew capitals of the U.S. Cheers!
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Why does the U.S. lead the world in incarceration? We try to answer this question with data.
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Here’s how Russell Westbrook made NBA history in 2017.
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In the NBA, is home court advantage down to favorable home court officiating? We break down the stat
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Like teams in the Super Bowl, the popularity of Oscar contenders can also be regional. Here are the
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A lot can happen in the last 2:00 of an NBA game and the refs don’t always get it right. We tracked
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We used Google search data to measure slang, and it has us shook.
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Inspired by Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th, we mapped the change from "slave to criminal with one a
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What are the odds an artist will make it big? Three years and 75,000 concerts later, we finally have
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This is the site where it happens. We visualized every line from Hamilton.
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We analyzed 12,147 images to see how the media covers Trump and Clinton. It’s not a pretty picture.
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An interactive story of what happens when a genius samples a genius: Robert Glasper, Miles Davis and
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Hindsight is 20/20. We redraft decades of NBA picks using their career stats to find the breakouts a
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Miles Davis is mentioned on 2,452 Wikipedia pages. We analyzed them all.
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These are the most unlikely NBA comebacks from the 2015–16 season. Harden, Curry, James: the gang’s
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This is the largest analysis of film dialogue by gender. Yes, even Disney has films with fewer lines
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What counts as "punk" music? We turned to Spotify and YouTube playlists to answer this question.
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Here are the writers, directors, and producers who make films that fail the Bechdel test.
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Is it an east coast vs. west coast thing? Every hip hop record label, since 1989, sorted by Billboar
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We used Spotify plays to track the most timeless songs of all-time.
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How Outkast brought their southern roots to hip hop, in charts.