(Image: EPFL)In the Star Wars expanded universe, there are (or were, until Disney eliminated it) over 20,000 characters on 294 planets. What is the species distribution? Researchers at the prestigious research institutio...

I’m not sure whether this is totally a math problem or a logic problem, but it has elements of both.We plan to put Beauty to sleep by chemical means, and then we'll flip a(fair) coin. If the coin lands Heads, we wi...

Are you more literate than a third grader? If your vocabulary is limited to the most popular songs on the Billboard charts for the past 10 years, then that’s in doubt.Andrew Powell-Morse of the data blog SeatSmart...

(Image: HBO)No, we're not talking about how many c...  ...till alive.Jerzy Wieczorek, a doctoral student in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, speculates that ab...

National Geographic brings us an interactive data visualization project that breaks down world food consumption. As you can see, globally, we consume more grains than anything. The staff of life, you know. At the site, y...

(Image: HBO)George R.R. Martin's slaughter of the inhabitants of Westeros and Essos appears random, but there are clear patterns that can detected and extended mathematically. Dr. Richard Vale, a professor of mathematics...

The New York Times constructed an interactive map of the United States that ranks the nation’s 3,135 counties on a scale that combines the percentage of residents with a bachelor’s degree, median household in...

The Wall Street Journal took a World Cup bracket a...  ...e interactive page, you can select from a list of statistics . Which of the 32 World Cup teams is the tallest?...

According to Nate Silver and Allison McCann, it&rs...  ...r for someone like Silver, who lives and breathes statistics . However, they’ve already done the research...

Reddit is home to a delicious subreddit called Random Acts of Pizza, where redditors try to convince others to send them a pizza by using tactics which range from “me hungry” to “won’t you take pi...