Deepfakes — which use machine learning to create fake videos — burst onto the internet in 2017 and were decried as the end of trust, having the potential to bring down democracy, and evidence of...

I analyzed the "um's" I used during a talk I gave at the 2018 Tableau conference, noting the average number of um's per minute, their increase over time, and the relationship between the um's and...

In our previous research, we investigated different areas of the Facebook dispositif: algorithmic and human labor, the digital infrastructure behind the social network, and the exploitation of...

A series of articles and graphics for BBC Future about the long view of humanity. Looking at populations and civilisation collapse. In the first article we want to get across the scale looking at...

A visualization showing the connections of the Myers Briggs personality types.

I started by taking a look at my career history and surfacing trends I could find. Once I had a gone through the mental task of mapping of my past job responsibilities, the respective categories of...

It sounds like hyperbole, but it isn’t: Half of American women struggle to find jeans that fit at the mall. More specifically, only 13% of women’s jeans in brick and mortar stores are available for...

Around 3 months into my backpacking trip, I was wandering around in Ukraine while trying to learn a few words. As hard as I tried, I would butcher the simplest of phrases such as "Good day"...

I had just moved to Singapore in Jun 2018. I remember there was a night when I took the subway back home at around 10 PM. Nearly half of the people on the subway were just coming back from work....

What does 50 years of human migration look like? The ebb and flow of people across borders has long shaped our world. Data from the past 50 years of international migration help us understand why...

The framework for diagnosing personality disorders is in need of an overhaul. Which of the top 10 are proposed for removal?

Every city has its banner. The Think Summit’s City of Technology has something more: a 12 metres long interactive flag generated and powered by the ideas and hopes of its citizens. An innovative...

I initially created this map for a GISMO exhibit at the Queens Museum, "Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World". There, the map existed in print form and focused only on Queens. The data comes...

In college I studied Computer Science and forgot how to talk to women. There just weren’t any of them, anywhere (or if there were, they were in hiding). As the only straight woman within reach, I...

This chart approaches the fundamental question from a data-driven perspective, and it provides one potential solution: money does buy some happiness, but only to a limited extent.

The Newspaper Diversity Survey measures the percentage of women and minorities working in US newsrooms. The results from 2017’s survey are in.

During Russia's centuries‑long history, its ethnic composition has changed repeatedly. At the moment, there are over 190 ethnic groups in Russia who speak 150 languages belonging to 13 language...

Who says dinner, and who says supper? Using data from the words and location tags of billions of tweets, reporter Nikhil Sonnad, Things reporter at Quartz tracks the American dialect in these...

The State Library of New South Wales collects material to provide a documentary record of life in one of the largest Australian states. The documentary record of life in New South Wales is now,...

Only two cities have had the distinction of being named the most populous city in the United States. The first one was Philadelphia, estimated to be the biggest city in the country at the time of...

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death all over the world. In Italy smoking cause the death of c.a 83.000 people every year. Nowdays, thanks to social advertising, everybody knows that...

An exploration of how age, gender, and race affect casting of professional productions of Shakespearean plays. A deep dive into data from 1,000+ productions of 10 Shakespearean plays produced...

This is an infographic that represents some less than pleasant facts about love in regards to the digital world.  

After having discovered that his steps were being monitored by a smartphone, he decided to take advantage of all unused collected data. Believing in the value of simplicity and following the...

Women in government in the modern era are under-represented in most countries worldwide. Even though some progress has been made during the last two centuries, and women are increasingly...

An interactive visualization showing the number of births for every day of each year between 1994 and 2014. 1994 begins in the center as a radial area chart. Each year then stacks on top of it,...

This work includes monthly survey results from a research company, giving insights about different demographic groups' viewpoints about varying subject matters.

In December of 1997 Ana Orantes goes to television show in Canal Sur for tell her testimony, a history about gender-violene, years and years of domestic violence. That testimony was her sentence of...

Female characters appear in superhero comics less often than males — but when they are included, how are they depicted?

In many Western countries, there is a significant divide between rural and urban attitudes. Does the same hold true for Germany? To find out, we took a closer look where people live and what...