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Many data things were made this year. These are my favorites.

Kashmir Hill reports for the New York Times: Schneiderman, the computer science professor, calls the desire to make machines that seem human a "zombie idea" that won't die. He first noticed ChatGPT ...

Kalshi is a prediction market that aims to let users bet on everything. The weird thing: almost all revenue comes from sports and the company never talks about it in interviews. For Financial Times ...

On New Year's Eve in New York, a ball drops 139 feet for 60 seconds. Will Lindberg and Brian Moore extrapolated to start the countdown much sooner and from much higher.

For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college football teams by amount of happiness and misery served to the schools' fans. The rankings span 70 team ...

The current administration is bent on deporting people from the United States. For the New York Times, Raj Saha, Zach Levitt, and Albert Sun mapped where thousands of people are being moved within ...

Earlier this year, Kashmir Hill, for the New York Times, reported on a woman who fell in love with a ChatGPT persona. Hill followed up with the woman who has since stopped using the service. By the ...

The farce that was DOGE made claims of heavy savings and government efficiency. That wasn't the case in reality. The New York Times examined the claims, which were exaggerations, error-prone,

YouGov asked people when they think will be the best years of their life. Split by age group, there's a preference towards one's present where those in their 20s said their 20s, those i ...

A woman in Japan "married" her virtual partner in a real-world ceremony. Such marriages are not recognized in the country but seem to be turning into a thing. Kim Kyung-Hoon and Satoshi ...