In 1939, ethnomusicologists John and Ruby Lomax set out on a 6,502 mile journey across the Southern United States collecting folksongs on behalf of the Library of Congress.
Using maps, music and...
A study on the non-invertibility of translation between languages, Loss in Translation analyzes how the top thousand nouns in English are translated to other languages and back. This is interesting...
Analysis and comparison of the word usage in six of the world's major sacred texts—Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), Bible (Judaism and Christianity), Dhammapada (Buddhism), Quran (Islam), Tao Te Ching...
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...
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...
As large amounts of genealogical data made open, people could trace back their family roots. Our data source is the China Biographical Database of Harvard University.
We further explored the...
This is an interactive visualization of a thesaurus – the view highlights the relationship between central search word and its reference to other words used within the dataset.
A query word is...
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 perfect hourglass is almost unheard of for plus sized fit. The majority of plus sized women identify with more disproportioned sizing that makes finding the perfect fit in tailored clothes almost...
Where are the gaps and opportunities in plus sized clothing? For the demographic with the most purchasing power, determining the right style fit is absolutely priceless. It's time for the industry...
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...
In just two decades of the new century, Russia did come so far. And so did it’s people’s lifestyle and social structure which changed along with rising economic well being. This long read is an...
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...
Poster about veganism. The central image explains guidelines for how to carry out a healthy vegan diet, and the elements around it explain data related to this position.
What is the far right talking about on Twitter? The SPLC Hate Tracker visualizes activity around hashtags on Twitter by aggregating data on users identified by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)...
The Sole 24 Ore website publishes an interactive map with all the interventions that can be carried out in a free building regime, based on the single glossary defined by the Ministry of...
Miner’s Walk is an interactive documentary exploring the lives of Indonesian miners who trek the steep slopes of the Ijen Crater in search of sulphur.
In recent times the Ijen Crater has...
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...
Also women can harass men in different type of ways, but it seems that no one is willing to talk about it. Just like concrete, men are stereotypically considered strong, unbreakable. Bu exactly...
What will really increase your average life expectancy and lifespan? Why do women live longer than men? What’s the best method of life extension? Diet and exercise? Or polygamy and pets? Let the...
Analyzing Mr. Jokowi's (President of Indonesia) word usage on Twitter. Mr. President is actively using his twitter account to talk about his programs and build communication between government and...
For this year QiXi Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day, we wanted to see what young Chinese are curious about when it comes to love. We collected 1139 questions from Zhihu, the largest online...
Being an expat in the UK, 'how a society treats outsiders and minority groups' has become one of the subjects that I care about the most. South Korea, my home country, in my memory wasn't the...
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...
On June 2, NewsCred hosted our fourth annual #ThinkContent Summit, bringing together over 1,200 content marketing leaders from Fortune 1000 brands, including IBM, Verizon, JPMorgan Chase,...