Who Merits the Longest NY Times Obituaries?
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
9/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
6/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Using the NY Times Archive API , journalist Ted Alcorn built Below the Fold , a dashboard through which you can explore the last 25 years of Times coverage: 2.2 million articles containing 1.5 billion words. You can slice and dice this data in a bunch of different ways — it’s a fantastic resource. One of the site’s sections is about obituaries . From that data, Alcorn produced this infographic of
