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June 5, 2014 Marina Galperina

Jose Duran, the truck driver who died yesterday after a dislodged manhole cover crashed through his windshield in the Bronx, was the 100th victim of traffic incidents, according to tallies kept by the WNYC. Their stats count half of the victims killed to be pedestrian. Five were bicyclists. It’s difficult to tell whether Mayor Bill de […]

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March 25, 2014 Andy Cush

Digg and Pornhub created this interactive porn infographic, which plots the favorite XXX subgenres of several major U.S. cities. What do we learn? The most popular search term across the country is “massage,” which seems pretty weird. Also, people really like Lisa Ann (aka Sarah “Paylin”). City-by-city, the results skew towards national trends, with stuff […]

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February 6, 2014 Andy Cush

The porn-centric big data project Sexualitics created Porngram, a nifty tool that lets you chart the frequency of terms that show up in pornos uploaded to xHamster between 2007 and 2013. Just enter two terms — “MILF,” and “teen,” for instance — and you’re given a simple line graph showing how their popularity shifted over […]

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February 18, 2013 Andy Cush

Writer John Millward has compiled what may be the biggest-ever statistical study of the porn industry. By extracting data from the Internet Adult Film Database–the IMDB of pornography–he’s come up with some big-picture generalities about the kinds of on-screen sex the world likes to watch. For starters, there’s the above image, a facial morph of […]

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