March Madness is the kind of event that brings millions of college athletics fans across the country together. Whether you’re a big basketball fan or just a casual observer, the nearly month-long tournament always captures attention with its fanfare, brackets, bets, and Cinderella stories. The interesting thing about March Madness is that it also presents a

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Sarah Joy Nelson amassed half a million TikTok followers making videos claiming to be a “plain” woman — that is, a member of the Amish or Mennonite community. But after an ambiguous apology video to her community and a suddenly deleted account, Nelson’s followers quickly started worrying she may be in danger. Then, Internet sleuths created

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Since his 2013 breakthrough hit single “Take Me To Church,” Hozier has steadily built a passionate fanbase. His recent radio resurgence with the song “Too Sweet” and accompanying EP Unheard gives us an opportunity to see how new music can affect social metrics.  We built a Dataspace in RootNote for Hozier to help understand and visualize his

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The Dartmouth men’s basketball team hasn’t been competitively consequential in decades. But their recent decision to form the first ever student athlete union may prove to be one of the most consequential moments in the history of college athletics.  Dartmouth player Cade Haskins and his teammates officially voted to unionize last month in a small New

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The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri recently posted on Instagram’s sister app Threads about why a creator’s Instagram posts may not reach many of their followers. And it, uh, didn’t go great.  Mosseri’s initial comments weren’t actually about the reach of a user’s Instagram posts at all. Instead, he made a post about how users should

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