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Stories in data.

Visual essays on language, public data, and the things worth counting — plus the tools to go digging yourself.

By Joseph Kato — creator of Vale, a prose linter downloaded nearly ten million times and used by Microsoft, GitHub, and GitLab.

Analysis / / 5 min read Latest

Where Wikipedia fights

Wikipedia has no editor-in-chief; disputes end when someone hits undo. Read the last five hundred edits of its own most-contested articles and the map of where the reverting runs hottest is not the one the culture wars would draw.