What are the most frequently used words in the English language? You’re about to find out. In 1965, researcher Mark Mayzner published Tables of Single-letter and Digram Frequency Counts for Various ...

Most of us know that “the” is the most common word in the English language. But what are some other high-frequency words, both long and short? This amazing animated data bubble visualization by ...

I mentioned two days ago the very nice tool for mapping word-use in presidential inaugural addresses, created by Jonathan Feinberg of IBM. I should have mentioned the underlying open-ended tool Wordle ...

A visualization of thousands of Wikipedia edits that were made by a single software bot. Each color corresponds to a different page. * Image: Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, and Kate Hollenbach ...

Too often, the words used to describe women are discriminatory. They’re also, upon close inspection, absurd. That’s the simple truth Anna Friemoth brings to light in her ongoing series, “Words for ...