words

Daniel Wolfe for The Washington Post looked at the similar word choices across…

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

PhotoChrome is a straightforward tool that lets you use search terms to find…

People’s interpretation of a chart can change if you use differents words to describe it, even if the data stays the same.

Authors tend to focus on different body parts for men and women, and…

Thomas Dimson trained a model to generate words that don’t exist in real…

You’re probably feeling a range of emotions these days. It helps if you…

There was a survey a while back that asked people to provide a…

In the early 1990s, the CIA published internal survey results for how people…

Sandra Rendgen describes the history of “data” the word and where it stands…

Financial Times recently updated their style guide:

data — the rule for always…

Josh Katz, Claire Cain Miller, and Kathleen A. Flynn for The Upshot plotted…

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers monitored brain activity in seven people while…

Jonathan Corum for The New York Times examines word usage by President Barack…

If you don’t watch the candidate debates — and let’s face it, that’s…

If you’ve visited YouTube in the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably noticed…

Love ’em or hate ’em, tag clouds, or the more recent incarnation, Wordles,…