Data

The library has been incapacitated since October, and the effects have spread beyond researchers and book lovers.

We’ve uploaded everything anyone has ever known onto a worldwide network of machines. What if it doesn’t have all the answers?

Coping with intrusive thoughts about your child getting hurt and other anxiety-inducing parental worries.

A nonprofit news outlet has spent the past half year publishing more complete data on homelessness. Eric Adams’s administration says it plans to start doing the same.

A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues?

In the nineteen-sixties, Syukuro Manabe drew a graph that foretold our world today—and what’s to come.

Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems.

When it comes to people—and policy—numbers are both powerful and perilous.

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?

Standards for accounting for such deaths vary wildly from state to state, and chances that a uniform definition of maltreatment death will materialize are slim.

Seeing the whole journey along the U.S.-Mexico border lengthwise, from the sky, prompts curiosity about the people living near the border, the people trying to cross it, and the people trying to stop others from crossing it.

The information designer describes her profession as “telling stories with data,” which sounds like an oxymoron, until you see her work.

At least one reason why Russia would want the Trump campaign’s polling data is that it potentially offered granular demographic targets for Russia’s bots and propaganda.