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 ...

When my older son was barely two and a half years old, he was able to distinguish between automobile brands. From time to time, he’d ask me what brand a specific car he was looking at was, and and I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...