https://crowintelligence.org/ Essays and interactive research from Crow Intelligence, an independent lab studying how language shapes thought. en https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/magyar-dalszovegek-essze/ https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/magyar-dalszovegek-essze/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A scrollable visual essay on six decades of Hungarian popular song (1950–2026): themes, words, emotions, rhymes and word-networks, decade by decade. In Hungarian. https://crowintelligence.org/felsozsolca/ https://crowintelligence.org/felsozsolca/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A data portrait of a Hungarian town: warming stripes of annual mean temperature, housing and population, incomes and local economy, what changed between two censuses, and year-by-year Landsat imagery of the town and its industrial zone. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/homer/ https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/homer/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A computational reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey: what each poem hoards, who speaks to whom, and where the map runs out. https://crowintelligence.org/kmdb/ https://crowintelligence.org/kmdb/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A data-driven analysis of K-Monitor's Hungarian corruption news archive: the most frequent and characteristic words, vocabulary richness, the co-occurrence network of the actors — people and institutions — and the types of corruption, broken down by parliamentary cycle. https://crowintelligence.org/chokepoints/ https://crowintelligence.org/chokepoints/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Topic-modelled daily geopolitical risk across the world's maritime chokepoints — Suez, the Red Sea, Hormuz, Panama, the Bosphorus and the Danish straits — tracking how risk is framed in the news as it unfolds. https://crowintelligence.org/fomc-dashboard/index.html https://crowintelligence.org/fomc-dashboard/index.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A pilot dashboard comparing how FOMC governors talk about the economy — topic, narrative type, stance, and time-orientation across four speeches, with a drill-down inspector for individual expressions. https://crowintelligence.org/magyar-dalszovegek/ https://crowintelligence.org/magyar-dalszovegek/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Six decades of Hungarian popular-music lyrics: distinctive words, shifting themes, semantic drift and genre from the 1960s to today. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/punctuation_spiral.html https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/punctuation_spiral.html Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The Tractatus stripped to its punctuation alone — every mark in sequence, spiralled outward. What remains when the words are removed: the rhythm and breath of the argument. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/epistemic-arcade/ https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/epistemic-arcade/ Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Two reinforcement-learning agents testing Clark & Chalmers' extended-mind hypothesis. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/ https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A visual reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus as a handwritten spiral. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/viz/handwriting.html https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/viz/handwriting.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The complete text of Wittgenstein's Tractatus walked out as a flat, right-angle spiral — one continuous path through its numbered propositions, set in handwriting and coloured by topical cluster. Companion visualisation to the Aporia essay. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/viz/handwriting_3d.html https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/wittgenstein/viz/handwriting_3d.html Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The same spiral lifted into three dimensions: each proposition set a constant step above the last, so the Tractatus climbs as it turns. Rendered in handwriting and navigable sentence by sentence. https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/nagel-essay/ https://crowintelligence.org/aporia/nagel-essay/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Big Five personality analysis of seven American leaders, public speeches vs. private writings. https://crowintelligence.org/site/index.html https://crowintelligence.org/site/index.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 An interactive exploration of Adam Smith's 1776 masterwork. Topic modeling, named entity recognition, rhetorical metaphor analysis, and full-text search across all five books. https://crowintelligence.org/web/index.html https://crowintelligence.org/web/index.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tracing the evolution of metaphorical language in 158,666 financial news headlines (2009–2020) across five crisis events, mapping metaphor domains to the Minsky–Kindleberger panic cycle. https://crowintelligence.org/analysis/index.html https://crowintelligence.org/analysis/index.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tracking how the meaning of political concepts like freedom, democracy, and war evolves across 250 years of American presidential discourse. Built with our open-source chronowords package — PPMI embeddings, Procrustes alignment, and NMF topic modeling. https://crowintelligence.org/semantic_explorer/app/index.html https://crowintelligence.org/semantic_explorer/app/index.html Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Explore the semantic structure of classic texts through interactive ego networks. Type a seed word, click to expand, and trace how meaning propagates through Tolstoy, Plato, Adam Smith, Darwin, and more. Built with our open-source kenon package.