The electoral college, usually an obscure quirk of the US political system, has drawn new scrutiny this year. Because Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton…
100,000 MAPS
The great American word mapper
What am I looking at? The data for these maps are drawn from billions of tweets collected by geographer Diansheng Guo in 2014. Jack Grieve,…
TECH TABLE
The seating chart at Trump’s table of tech giants
US president-elect Donald Trump held a meeting today with various Silicon Valley luminaries. The invite list for such a meeting, however, only tells us so…
QZ&A
Data scientist Cathy O’Neil on the cold destructiveness of big data
Big data promises fairness. With enough information about individuals and populations, we can design algorithms that will identify the best possible answer to a given…
DIAL A FOR ARMAGEDDON
Donald Trump speaks with Taiwan’s president—a massive diplomatic reversal that will enrage China
Donald Trump’s policy of calling every world leader just took a dramatic turn. His day’s roster of congratulatory conversations included a phone call with Taiwanese…
QZ&A
Inside the world of Chinese science fiction, with “Three Body Problem” translator Ken Liu
In 2015, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin became the first translated novel to win the Hugo Award, one of the highest honors in sci-fi.…
TRANSITION TRACKER
All of Trump’s cabinet nominations
Last updated on Dec. 17, 2016 Secretary, Department of State Rex Tillerson He’s the CEO of one of the world’s largest and most valuable companies—ExxonMobil—with a…
RIP
A eulogy for What.cd, the greatest music collection in the history of the world—until it vanished
In 2007, I became obsessed with a musician named Lizzy Mercier Descloux, a nearly forgotten French eccentric who created a singular style of punk-rock deeply…
TWITTER/TRUMP CORPUS
10,000 words ranked according to their Trumpiness
There is a lot separating voters for and against Trump: broadly speaking, they differ based on race, gender, and education, to name a few. A…
RANDOMNESS
Those nerve-wracking New York Times dashboard fluctuations are not all real
Election night in America has had two surprise successes: Donald Trump and the New York Times’ addictively nerve-racking live presidential forecast. Anxious election watchers have…
CHUANPU
New York’s and California’s ballots disagree on how to write “Donald Trump” in Chinese
This morning Eric Trump proudly announced on Twitter that he had voted for his father, Republican candidate Donald Trump. In this tweet, he included a…
COME SHINE OR SHINE
Mapped: Election-day weather that could affect voter turnout
American voters can be fickle. Over 10% of them still don’t know whether to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, according to national poll…
