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Are Men Singing Higher in Pop Music?
Men’s voices in pop music seem really high. When was vocal register the highest?
By Matt Daniels -
Top-Selling Book Covers, Arranged by Visual Similarity
An interactive map of over 5,000 book covers, organized by machine learning
By Jess Peter -
Hipster Summer Reading List 2019
An artisanal guide to obscure books based on 100 million checkout records.
By Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas
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The Rise of Hyphenated Last Names in Pro Sports
Since the 1990s names that arch over jerseys have become more common.
By Jan Diehm -
How Many High School Stars Make It in the NBA?
Every year the top high school basketball recruits get hyped up—do they pan out?
By Amber Thomas, Russell Goldenberg -
The Winningest Cities in North American Sports
What makes a titletown in sports?
By Sam Vickars -
A Visual History of Every Air Jordan
Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.
By Jan Diehm
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A People Map of the UK
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
By Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels -
A People Map of the US
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
By Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels -
Colorism in High Fashion
We looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue represents women of all shades.
By Malaika Handa, Amber Thomas, Jan Diehm -
30 Years of American Anxieties
What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.
By Ilia Blinderman, Caitlyn Ralph -
A Visual History of Every Air Jordan
Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.
By Jan Diehm
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Film or Digital?
Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium
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Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life
The story behind the gender divide on This American Life
By Ash Ngu -
She Giggles, He Gallops
Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts
By Julia Silge, Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas -
‘The Office’ Dialogue in Five Charts
A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show
By Caitlyn Ralph -
Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
How are female characters in superhero comics depicted?
By Amanda Shendruk
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Women's Issues Within Political Party Platforms
How often do women’s issues appear in party platform documents over time?
By Russell Goldenberg, Jan Diehm -
The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students
What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress codes
By Amber Thomas -
The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900
By Russell Goldenberg -
Population Mountains
This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.
By Matt Daniels -
Human Terrain: Population in 3D
Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain
By Matt Daniels
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Are Men Singing Higher in Pop Music?
Men’s voices in pop music seem really high. When was vocal register the highest?
By Matt Daniels -
Best Year in Music
A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era
By Matt Daniels -
How Often Names are in Songs
Every song seems to be written about "Baby". Where does your name stack up?
By Amber Thomas -
Who is the Biggest Pop Star?
Today, there's no single way to measure popularity in music.
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Rappers, Sorted by the Size of their Vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
By Matt Daniels
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Best Year in Music
A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era
By Matt Daniels -
Human Terrain: Population in 3D
Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain
By Matt Daniels -
The Birthday Paradox Experiment
Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. Because math.
By Russell Goldenberg
Greatest Hits
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Rappers, Sorted by the Size of their Vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
By Matt Daniels -
The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900
By Russell Goldenberg -
Population Mountains
This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.
By Matt Daniels -
Human Terrain: Population in 3D
Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain
By Matt Daniels -
The Birthday Paradox Experiment
Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. Because math.
By Russell Goldenberg -
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
By Colin Morris -
How Music Taste Evolved
Top 5 songs, from '58-'16, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good
By Matt Daniels
How-To
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Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 and Flexbox
Bye bye tricky SVG alignments. Hello SVG-free data viz!
By Amber Thomas -
An Introduction to Scrollama.js
The what, why, and how to use scrollama.js for your next scrollytelling story
By Russell Goldenberg -
How to Make Dope Shit Part 2: Design
Some pointers on learning to design data-driven visual essays.
By Ilia Blinderman