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...

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...

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...

The images shared on social media not only provide authentic brand assets that people are keen to engage with – they are also the most direct way of seeing the world through consumers’ eyes. To...

In 2014, I researched the musical origin of the word “shorty.” Turns out that Too $hort was the first to rap it and Lil Jon coined the southern-drawled “shawty.” Shorty wasn’t pervasive,...

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

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...

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...

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...

Canada's Indian Residential School System was a network of boarding schools, industrial schools, and federal hostels created to remove indigenous children from their homes, their families, and...

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"...

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...

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

This interactive visualization shows you the differences based on the frequency and contextual relationship between two query words within the same dataset – this visualisation is especially useful...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

These are four interactive data visualizations that are based on the collection of the Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary. The application provides additional information on the authors of...