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...

  El País is the undisputed leader of the Spanish-language Internet conversation, according to the prestigious Global Opinion Leaders Index (GDI) in its 2016 edition, the results of which were...

Cops are using secret cellphone trackers nationwide to collect cellphone data—especially in poor, black neighborhoods.

SBS has released a new data feature All Work, No Stay? exploring the effects of rising temporary migration on Australia’s cultural and social identity, examining the history and impact of the...

This wallchart is a celebration of global typography. It compares every major writing system used in the world today (as well as a few key historical ones) and is comprised of over 2000 symbols in...

Blink and you might have missed it: On July 27, 2017, 10:10AM, Jeff Bezos briefly became the world’s richest person. His stake in Amazon.com Inc. has soared nearly fivefold since the online...

Whether Pope, Merkel, Trump or the DiCaprio, they are all talking to us. But how exactly do they do this? "To the point(s)" is a rhetorical analysis tool revealing the speech strategies of today’s...

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...

These data visualizers imagined each era of U.S. immigration as a ring in a growing tree trunk.

A description of who I am. What is obvious to state and what do you tell someone who doesn't know anything about you?

The writer Victor Hugo advised looking for letters to know someone's personality because there were the marks of his heart. Now we do not write so many letters but whasaps. This infographic counts...

Jordanian orphans and children given up at birth are expected to survive and thrive once they leave the care system. But in a country where family is everything, these children face relentless...

How much does the translation behavior of a language indicate about its culture? Do German speakers seek the same words translated as the Spanish? To investigate, we've analyzed all the single word...

The surprising link between your birthday and place of birth— in one heat map

Ever wonder if we can quantify a gender bias in society? Using machine learning, we can generate word associations present in a given media source. By looking at those associations we can tell...

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...

Being an outspoken woman on Twitter is hard. To find out how hard, we gathered a day’s worth of tweets sent to four prominent Indian women — Barkha Dutt, Rana Ayyub, Tavleen Singh, and Madhu...

People’s workdays tend to follow similar patterns. You wake up in the morning, get ready for the day, go to work for eight hours or so, and then go home. There are breaks in between. The 9 to 5,...

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have played Google’s game Quick, Draw! prompting us to ask what takeaways it might have for global culture, like whether your location and language...

This is an "interactive data comic narrative" of the findings of a survey conducted by the World Bank on the challenges women face in the quest for economic opportunity around the world.

A healthy Twitter conversation can be seen as one with long chains of replies that have little to no toxic messaging. For a conference talk urging cultivation of healthier conversations, I...

Respondents to polls say they expect their lives to improve with time. In general, they do not.

Approximately 850 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, say the British authorities.

The richest people in the world found success at various ages. Warren Buffett spent over 25 years as a millionaire before becoming a billionaire, while it took Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos less...

Visualizing student's academic performances across four subjects based on National Achievement Survey (2014).

I went through the New York Times Best Seller list in fiction from 1950 to present, and for each year measured the ratio of books-written-by-women to books-written-by men and tracked that over...

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a website dedicated to the social network of early modern Britain, 1500-1700. At sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com, scholars, students, and citizen humanists can...

Every weekend, Shanghai People’s Park will be packed by groups of people, who are mostly middle aged and have children that they deem should get married soon, if not already late, and who're in...

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

“Even at Shanghai’s ‘marriage market’, it’s hard to find a date” is a data analysis of personal matchmaking ads. The Paper and Sixth Tone collected hundreds of ads from the “marriage market” in...