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For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…

We talk about geographic bubbles a lot these days. Some areas are isolated,…

Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
In at least one previous…

Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…

Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…

Facebook released Prophet, which is a procedure to quickly forecast with time series…

Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…

Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…

The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…

Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…

There are a handful of ways to express laughter online, and it appears…

The most recent episode of RadioLab is on social experimentation and social networks.…

If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…

Sterling Crispin reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms and produced masks that only kind…

After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…

For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…

Researchers at Princeton released a study that said that Facebook was on the…

Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…

Stephen Wolfram analyzed the Facebook world, based on anonymized data from the Wolfram|Alpha…

Along the same lines as their NFL fan maps, Facebook had a closer…