Charting The Generational Gaps In Music Knowledge
Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
What happens when you combine music, Joe Rogan, and probability?
What changes each decade, what stays the same and what do the questions say about American culture and society?
An exhaustive breakdown of how celebrities are used to convey feelings using search data from Google's GIF keyboard.
Do writers like to write about places close to home or do they like to set their locations in faraway locations that they've never been to? Here's a fascinating data visualization that shows how far the authors of the top 100 best books since 1900 have set their books from where they lived.
Examining how far authors set their books from where they've lived.
Quantifying the lasting impact of a YouTube controversy.
Using advanced NBA stats to rank player performance against pay.
We investigated a dataset of more than 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930-2013 to find out when big hair was at its height.
It may be further than you think.
Are men singing higher in pop music? That's the question collaborator Estelle Caswell at Vox asked, noticing more male vocalists exploiting their upper singing register.
It's officially summer and you're looking for your next read. But you don't want to read what everyone else is reading. So we (programmatically) sifted through over 100 million checkout records from the Seattle Public Library to find fiction books that haven't been checked out in over a decade.
This is a story about the pernicious claims borne out of a single, discredited scientific paper in 1998.
Who's the most famous person (or at least the person with the most Wikipedia traffic) from your hometown? This extremely detailed map from The Pudding has your answer.
Who's the most famous person (or at least the person with the most Wikipedia traffic) from your hometown? This extremely detailed map from The Pudding has your answer.
Looking at just professional sports, there's a clear trend, especially for the four leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL) that have been around since at least the 1950s.
In the past 19 years, there have been 228 issues of Vogue, with a total of 262 female cover models. Let's look at where these women fall on the skin lightness spectrum.
To see how text predictors work in action, we will predict tweets by four Twitter accounts: Barack Obama, Justin Timberlake, Kim Kardashian and Lady Gaga.