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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.

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Who does the talking

At Supreme Court oral argument the justices share a fixed hour, and they split it about as unevenly as they split anything else. Six terms of transcripts show who spends the Court's time, who barely does, and the newest justice who out-talks them all.