Can you spell the hardest names in the NBA?

Every year the top high school basketball recruits get hyped up—do they pan out?

What makes a titletown in sports?

Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.

Warning: this video contains a high dosage of LeBron footage.

The greatest single-season anomalies in the last 30 years

What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.

Tracking the rise in popularity from Cardi B to Carson Wentz

Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.

Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018

You already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.

What pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die

Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium

The genius of Ali Wong’s Netflix special

The story behind the gender divide on This American Life

Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts

A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show

How are female characters in superhero comics depicted?

How often do women’s issues appear in party platform documents over time?

What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress codes

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines

This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.

Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain

Today, there's no single way to measure popularity in music.

The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics

Every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980

Who has more emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo-rap or Dashboard Confessional?

An exploration into the music of skateboarding

We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places.