Authors
Kyle McAuliffe
Founder & Editor
Kyle McAuliffe is the founder of Artometrics — a data-science magazine for the
creative industries and culture. He writes and edits long-form reports that turn
public datasets into clear, citable stories on sports, film, music, cities, and power.
ANIME: What Changed When We Fixed the Data
PADRES: What Changed When We Fixed the Data
FRANCHISE: What Changed When We Fixed the Data
PADRES: Record Sale, Zero Championships
INSTITUTIONS: When Dynasties Are Systems
JACKSON: The Cost of Being the Product
NARRATIVES: The Field Guide Culture Workers Needed
PLAYBOY: When the Brand Outlives the House
POISON: What Star Risk Costs an IP
PROTECTION: When Flops End Hollywood's Silence
BLUEPRINT: Record Sale, No Championship Formula
BEYONCE: The Cost of Controlling the House
TRADEMARKS: A ¥10.3 Million Win Becomes Cultural Reckoning
ATLAS: What Does Your Country Sell?
BIOECONOMICS: A Data Framework for Economic Identity
BLOCKBUSTERS: How Movies Become IMDb Famous
CELTICS: Eighteen Titles Made the Celtics a Franchise Judged Against Itself
COWBOYS: $10B Value, 29-Year Title Drought
DODGERS: 111 Wins Still Wasn't Enough
DYNASTIES: Who Converts Finals Into Championships?
EXPORTERS: Platforms, Factories, and Machines
FAME: Catalog Depth Predicts Pop Duration
FANDOM: Six Sports Identity Patterns
GEOPOLITICS: Film and Music Lead Cultural Exports; Korea Rose 70 Points Since 1990
GUTENBERG: English Holds 72% of the Shelf
LAKERS: Seventeen Championships, Star Gravity
LEAGUES: Why Rules Set Team Value, Not Markets
METROS: New York Capital, San Francisco Invention
OSCARS: How Award Shows Build Prestige
PANTHEON: Power, Art, and Science Dominate MIT's Pantheon of Global Memory
PATRIOTS: Six Super Bowls in Nineteen Seasons
RIVALRY: California vs. Texas on Seven Economic Dimensions
SF: Can It Absorb Its Own Invention Machine?
YANKEES: Twenty-Seven Titles Built the Yankees—Fifteen Dry Years Define Them Now
AIRLINES: How Incident Counts Hide Exposure Differences
ALBUMS: Rolling Stone's 2003 Canon, Rank by Rank
ALCOHOL: Who Drinks the Most Per Capita?
BIKESHARE: How Far Portland Rides Actually Go
BILLBOARD: How Long Number-Ones Stay on Top
BREWERIES: U.S. Craft Beer Peaks at 12.8% ABV While the Median Stays at 6%
BROADWAY: Springsteen on Broadway Doubled Hamilton's Average Ticket Price
CALORIES: Fast Food's 2,430-Calorie Ceiling
CAROLS: Jingle Bell Rock Spent 19 Weeks on Chart Across Six Decades
CATALOG: Netflix's Movie-Heavy Catalog Hid Its Longest Titles in Interactives
CEOs: CEO Tenure Caps at 2.5 Years in 9,423 Departure Records
CETACEANS: Captive Cetacean Transfers Peaked in 1972 at 170 U.S. Records
COMICS: Spider-Man Leads 23,000 Comic Characters at 4,043 Appearances
DIPLOMACY: Brazil Dominates the UN Roll-Call in a 100,000-Vote Sample
EMMYS: SNL's 859 Records Beat Every Show
EMPERORS: Constantine Lasted 31 Years; the Nerva–Antonine Line Averaged 12.5 More
EXERCISE: Colorado Leads U.S. Exercise Participation at 32%
FACTBOOK: Five Countries Hold 72% of World Population
GAMES: Crowd Scale Meets Elite Ratings
HERITAGE: Sweden's UNESCO Sites vs. Denmark
HORROR: Horror Ratings Rose as Catalog Volume Grew 50× in Seven Decades
HURRICANES: Maria's 2017 Peak Hammered Puerto Rico in a Three-State Season
LANGUAGES: Glottolog's 8,612 Records Map Fieldwork, Not Where People Speak
LCSH: 69,027 Headings Anchor Gutenberg's Core
LEGOS: LEGO Sets Shrank to 60 Pieces as Flagships Hit 11,695
LONGEVITY: Global Life Expectancy Nearly Tripled in Five Centuries
LYRICS: Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Line by Line
MAC: Twenty Years of Big Mac Prices
MAJORS: Psychology Grads Fill Low-Wage Jobs at Four Times the Business Rate
MARGINS: Genre Mislabeling Hides the Winners
MEDIUM: Do Four-Minute Medium Posts Earn More Claps?
METRICS: Page Speed Improved 31% at the Median, 2016–2022
MUSEUMS: UK Cluster in Less-Deprived Areas
NETFLIX: Squid Game Season 2 Logged 730 Million Hours on Netflix
NOVELS: Victorian Authors Own the Christmas Canon
NUCLEAR: Nuclear Test Magnitudes Peaked at 7.40 Across 2,051 Detonations
PARKS: Golden Gate Draws 94× the Median National Park Visit
PHDS: Social Sciences Drove 63% of Growth
PIXAR: Pixar's Critic Scores Broke Only Twice—Cars 2 and Lightyear
PIZZA: Two Economies in 10,000 Menu Rows
PLASTIC: Plastic Mismanagement Stayed Uneven as GDP Doubled Since 1700
PRISONS: U.S. Jail Populations, County by County, 1970–2016
RADIO: News/Talk Lives on AM While FM Clusters at 101 MHz
RAMEN: Malaysia Leads Global Ramen Ratings by Half a Star
RANKINGS: How the Chart Top Got Crowded
RESTAURANTS: NYC Inspection Scores Hit 156—Eleven Times the Median
SCHOOLS: School Diversity Peaks at 85.3 While the Median Holds at 2.38
SHERLOCK: Twelve Words per Tokenized Record
SIMPSONS: Marcia Wallace, 175 Guest Appearances
SLICES: A Dozen Steam Titles Captured Half the Audience
STEAM: Ten Hours per Dollar Owns the Shelf
SUPERBOWL: Five Brands Capture 87% of Ad Views
TELEVISION: Prestige TV Scores Drifted Up—Slowly—From 1990 to 2018
TUITION: Vermont Led Public Tuition at $13,486 as Medians Rose 56%
VOTERS: National Turnout Hit 132 Million; Most States Stayed Near 1.2 Million
WASTEWATER: Singapore's Wastewater Plants Discharge 200× the Global Norm
WEALTH: Middle Brackets Gained Income Share; Top Tiers Trailed the Median
WINE: Austria and Chile, Two Points Apart
POKEMON: Dragon-types Earn Their Attack Stats—Bug-types Don't Recover
READMITTED: The 3% Stick Medicare Keeps Swinging
CAESAR: Power at 0.95, Then the Ides
GIANTS: Three Titles in Five Years at Payroll Nine
WARRIORS: Seventy-Three Wins Rewrote Basketball Offense
COFFEE: Ethiopia Scores Highest on Coffee Quality—With Zero Starbucks Stores
IMPERIAL: What Empire Chronicles Leave Out
YOUTUBE: The Platform's $36B Engine and One Podcast's Borrowed Peak
FRANCHISE: Merchandise Owns the Ledger
ANIME: Source Sets the Audience Floor