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...

Few things are more frustrating than collecting your belongings only to realize that your pants pockets can’t fit them. For wearers of women’s clothes, the struggle is real. Like many things on the...

“MeToomentum” is a self-initiated data visualization project exploring themes, geographical footprint and key moments of the popular social Movement #MeToo. In a World where sexual abuse and...

President Donald Trump announced July 27th that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals from serving "in any capacity" in the US armed forces. The decision reversed a policy...

Life in Clay explores the possibilities of turning data about my life and the lives of my loved ones into functional pottery. My goal is to give our elusive personal data a physical presence by...

“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...

A host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between. Humans are socially conditioned to view sex and gender as binary attributes. This visualization helps to...

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...

Everyday, our readers can tell us how they feel, right on our homepage. They can say whether they’re in a good mood or a bad one, and provide more detail by entering a single adjective. The...

"The Next Bechdel Test" was a months-long project searching for and testing ways to measure inclusion and representation in the American film industry. With input from professionals in and around...

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...

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...

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...

Forms of Attraction clusters images from the MET's Costume Institute into items sharing similar form. This was done through machine learning to uncover new relationships between items beyond...

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family trees which the Royal Constellations visual...

The median salary for women working full-time is about 80% of men’s. That gap, put in other terms, means women are working for free 10 weeks a year.

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

No matter where you are on Earth, we all look up to the same sky during the dark nights. You might see a different section of it, nevertheless the stars have always fascinated humans. And even...

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...

In the map “City of Women”—which appears in the forthcoming book “Nonstop Metropolis,” a creative atlas of New York City that I co-authored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—we tried on what it would look...

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"...

A report from ETH Zurich recently re-published by Harvard economics department, mapping out the various ethnic groups around the world. We were curious how this might compare with modern...

Dowry is official illegal in India, yet it remains common. Even in Delhi, the country's modernizing capital, 1,330 dowry cases were registered with the police in the first 6 months of 2017,...

Data Futures is a live experiment about the connections between our data and ourselves. It is run in conference settings, with a large, real-time visualization on a projector, two moderators...

Gender inequalities are thought to have first appeared with the advent of agriculture, when a clear distinction was made between the role of women and men in all spheres of social life. Men in...

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

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 year 2018 marks a century since some women in the United Kingdom were awarded the right to vote in and stand for elections. A hundred years later, do we have equal gender representation yet? In...

Ditch The Label joined forces with Brandwatch to analyze 19 million Tweets over a four-year period to explore the current climate of cyberbullying and hate speech online. We used social data...

This is a data- and research-driven story about the way we think about college students' upward mobility. For instance, how colleges can be a finishing school for the affluent. It uses charts and...