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How do disparities emerge in candidate selection processes? The interactive story “Ranks of Disparity” allows users to navigate a university admissions scenario, rank candidates, and learn how ...

Whether hitting a golf ball, catching a pass or skiing downhill, visualization increases repetitions safely without physical exertion while also reinforcing key technical and tactical focus points.

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

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Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...

Teaching sorting and searching algorithms to students often means confronting abstract concepts, pseudocode, and dry classroom lectures. Yet, as we recently discovered in our lab sessions, the moment ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...