Using advanced NBA stats to rank player performance against pay.

Since the 1990s names that arch over jerseys have become more common.

NBA refs: stay in your lane. NBA players: don't mind if we do.

Can you spell the hardest names in the NBA?

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

What makes a titletown in sports?

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

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

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

What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.

Tracking the rise in popularity from Cardi B to Carson Wentz

Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018

Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium

The genius of Ali Wong’s Netflix special

The story behind the gender divide on This American Life

Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts

A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show

How are female characters in superhero comics depicted?

Measuring the data behind a promise to transform prosecution.

What topics do members of Congress tweet about most frequently?

How often do women’s issues appear in party platform documents over time?

What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress codes

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines

Men’s voices in pop music seem really high. When was vocal register the highest?

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

Every song seems to be written about "Baby". Where does your name stack up?

Today, there's no single way to measure popularity in music.

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

Every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980