You should look at this chart about music genres
How Spotify's expanding catalog reflects 2023's musical frontier.
Addded Oct 30, 2023
We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral
It’s no secret that TikTok is a virality machine. But we wanted to know exactly what happens between a song going viral and an artist becoming a bonafide success. So in the fall of 2021, we partnered with data analysis website The Pudding figure it out.
Addded May 31, 2022
Help a Computer Win the 'New Yorker' Cartoon Caption Contest
This is a weekly experiment to see if an artificial intelligence program can produce real humor.
Addded May 27, 2021
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Photo quiz: This is an experiment about how we view history
We’re going to show you a series of photos and ask you when each picture was taken.
Addded Oct 26, 2020
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Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
Addded Apr 30, 2020
The Emotional GIF Range of Celebs
We broke down how celebrities are used to convey feelings using search data from Google’s GIF keyboard.
Addded Mar 10, 2020
Addded Oct 24, 2019
Are Men Singing Higher in Pop Music?
Men’s voices in pop music, these days, seem really high. Using data, when was vocal register the highest?
Addded Aug 15, 2019
A People Map of the US
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
Addded May 29, 2019
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Who is the Biggest Pop Star?
Billboard claims the most popular musicians of 2018 were Drake, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, and Cardi B. But neither Sheeran nor Swift released an album in 2018; does this ranking truly represent music culture?
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Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
Addded Jan 18, 2019
Population Mountains
The shape of cities, using population data for every 1,000 square meters.
Addded Dec 11, 2018
The Most Emo Lyrics: Emo Rap vs. Dashboard Confessional
Who has the most emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo rappers or Dashboard Confessional? Has Juice Wrld out-emo’d emo bands?
Addded Aug 30, 2018
What Airport Traffic Tells Us About the World's Megacities
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.
Addded Aug 19, 2018
The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
Addded Aug 18, 2018
Are Hit Songs Becoming Less Musically Diverse?
Data on whether today’s hit artists are taking fewer risks and creating a narrower range of sounds.
Addded May 30, 2018
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The Language of Hip-Hop
An interactive feature on the words rappers use (and don’t use).
Addded Sep 28, 2017
Miles Davis’ legacy, represented by every Wikipedia page that mentions him
This year, Miles Davis would have turned 90 years old. 25 years after his death, he’s still synonymous with Jazz, but you can find his fingerprints on so many other ideas.
Addded May 26, 2016
Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much shit for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles. But it's all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion.
Addded May 23, 2016
Every hip hop record label, since 1989, sorted by their artists' chart performance on Billboard
Every hip hop record label, since 1989, sorted by their artists' chart performance on Billboard
Addded Dec 13, 2015
Using Spotify Plays to Quantify How Old Music Has Stood the Test of Time
Let's examine every song that ever charted, 1990 - 1999, and rank them by number of plays on Spotify, today.
Addded Aug 25, 2015
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip hop
35,000 words covers 3-5 studio albums and EPs. I included mixtapes if the artist was just short of the 35,000 words. Quite a few rappers don't have enough official material to be included (e.g., Biggie, Kendrick Lamar).
Addded May 4, 2014