language

Hip-hop’s influence on the English language

Infographics / hip-hop, language, music, New York Times, vernacular

For The New York Times, Miles Marshall Lewis highlights the etymology of five…
Objectiveness distributions

Infographics / humor, language

Putting this joke chart up for posterity, because it deserves it. The earliest…
Demonstrating how large language models work

Statistics / AI, language, model, Upshot

You might’ve heard about large language models lately. They’re the “brains” behind recent…
Developing a data design language for the World Health Organization

Design / language, World Health Organization

In a collaborative effort with UX agency Kore, Moritz Stefaner describes work with…
Analysis of compound curse words used on Reddit

Statistical Visualization / Colin Morris, humor, language, Reddit

As you know, Reddit is typically a sophisticated place of kind and pleasant…
Different languages, but similar information rates

Statistical Visualization / information, language, words

Christophe Coupé and company analyzed speech rate (on the left) across different languages,…
Isotype, a picture language

Infographics / Isotype, language

Jason Forrest delves into the history of a single Isotype and a bit…
Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs

Infographics / Asian, language, Vox

Vox delves into why Ls and Rs often get replaced by Asian speakers…
Changing size analogies and the trends of everyday things

Statistics / language, n-gram, size

When you try to describe the size of something but don’t have an…
Dialect book of maps

Maps / book, dialect, language

In 2013, Josh Katz put together a dialect quiz that showed where people…
It’s All Greek (or Chinese or Spanish or…) to Me

Data Underload / language

In English, there’s an idiom that notes confusion: “It’s all Greek to me.” Other languages have similar sayings, but they don’t use Greek as their point of confusion.
Translating images to words

Statistics / Google, language, neural networks

With Google’s image search, the results kind of exist in isolation. There isn’t…
English versus Chinese color descriptors

Infographics / color, language, Wikipedia

Color exists on a continuous spectrum, but we bin them with names and…
Distribution of letters in the English language

Statistical Visualization / distributions, language

Some letters in the English language appear more often in the beginning of…
Lexical distance between European languages

Network Visualization / Europe, language

Using data from linguistics research by Kostiantyn Tyshchenko, Teresa Elms clustered European languages…
Happy new year around the world

Statistical Visualization / language, Twitter

New Year’s is a worldwide event, but as we know, it doesn’t happen…
Easy text classification

Statistics / language, machine learning

Text can be a great source of data, but it can be a…
Where non-English language is spoken in the US →

Maps / language, Washington Post

Dan Keating and Darla Cameron for the Washington Post mapped commonly used languages…
Languages of New York, via Twitter

Maps / language, Twitter

In a follow-up to their map on most used languages in London, James…
Endangered languages project

Maps / Google, interactive, language, Vizzuality

Google, in collaboration with Vizzuality, are trying to catalog endangered languages before they…

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