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What topics do members of Congress tweet about most frequently?

How one unethical study on vaccines caused irreparable harm.

An interactive map of 11 years of book covers, organized by machine learning.

An artisanal guide to obscure books based on 100 million checkout records.

A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era.

Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.

Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.

Every year the top high school basketball recruits get hyped up. How often do they pan out?

We looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue represents women of different shades.

The EU dedicates a third of its budget to less economically developed regions for investments in infrastructure. Yet when regions improve economically, they no longer qualify for the same amount of funding. As a type of statistical gerrymandering,...

The many ways to misspell the hardest names in pop culture.

What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress code policies.

The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics

Last year, Daniel Knowles wrote an account of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a city of 13 million people. One of his stats led me down a rabbit hole: Kinshasa has 13 departing flights per day.