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The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. pudding.cool Email: sup@pudding.cool Support us: patreon.com/thepudding

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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 05/08/2026
Over 30,000 people have mowed our digital lawn so far, but only 16% found the perfect path. How close will you get to the optimal solution? Go ahead, touch grass. pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ #dataviz #datascience #data
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 27/07/2026
New project! Two influential word lists made by language researchers define an "essential English vocabulary" for learners: one from 1953 and another from 2023. In this essay, Jasmine Nackash examines the differences between them and what that says about us. link: pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 08/07/2026
We’ve revamped our pitch guidelines to help us surface the best ideas faster! 📢 Have a data story you're obsessed with telling? We want to hear it. pudding.cool/pitch/
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Pitch a Story
How to collaborate on a story with The Pudding.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 02/07/2026
25 years of NBA champions. Only 5 “ethical” rings. We crunched the playoff injury data to see which titles actually hold up without an asterisk. Let us know how mad you are in the comments. Remember, we don’t make the rules, the data does. #nba #dataviz pudding.cool/2026/06/ethi...
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Ethical NBA Championships, Ranked
Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 25/06/2026
New project! What do America's earliest restaurant menus teach us about America? Explore menus from the New York Public Library's Buttolph Collection, and read the story of restaurants, told through archival menus, by @luriethereal.bsky.social pudding.cool/2026/06/menu...
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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
have you ever been to, uh, a restaurant??? because, if so, wow do I have a brand new multimedia bonanza exactly for you fresh up today @pudding.cool — the story of the American restaurant *plus* a database of 5000 explorable historic menus pudding.cool/2026/06/menu...
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A History of Menus is a Menu of History
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 18/06/2026
Have you ever thought about how you mow a lawn? We have. (A lot.) We partnered with Citizen Codex on a research project — and this is where it starts. Give it a go, drop your score in the comments, and follow along for the full story in a few weeks. #dataviz pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/...
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Lawn Mowing Experiment
Mow a series of lawns as efficiently as you can. We will publish the analysis in a few weeks.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 10/06/2026
Happily ever afters often get thrown in our face, but rarely do we talk honestly about the hard work it takes to sustain a relationship. We tracked 1,000+ people over the course of 5 years + a pandemic. #lovestory #dataviz #thepudding pudding.cool/2026/06/love...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 22/05/2026
As Minji and Eunice grew up, so did K-pop. From the suburbs of Michigan, to LA’s Koreatown, to pochas in NYC. This is the soundtrack (and dataset) to their lives. #kpop #dataviz #thepudding pudding.cool/2026/05/kpop...
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Growing Up With K-Pop
A story of two friends growing up together alongside K-pop.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 05/05/2026
Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school this visual essay is for you: pudding.cool/2026/05/simi...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 18/03/2026
Many women who’ve done IVF call themselves warriors. @lamthuyvo.bsky.social is one of them. Follow her interactive journey through infertility, told from two perspectives: parent & child. pudding.cool/2026/03/ivf/
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 02/03/2026
This weekend was a scorcher! Check out our updating map that tracks the number of days since a US city had a record-high temperature. pudding.cool/projects/hea...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 26/02/2026
The world feels quite precarious right now—and sometimes we forget what it feels like to pursue happiness. @alv9n.com digs into a study that asked more than 10,000 people to share their joy. From personal growth to friends and family, here’s our happiness mapped. pudding.cool/2026/02/happ...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 18/02/2026
Few life experiences feel as universal, across generations, as the pains and frustrations of trying to find clothes that fit. In our newest project we dive into the data about women's sizing chaos. pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 15/12/2025
We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 on this thread, and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the link: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 10/12/2025
There’s a secret language beneath your favorite movies, musicals, and even video games. We visualized every motif in Wicked, Hamilton, and Les Mis to show how tiny musical ideas can build entire emotional worlds. 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/12/moti...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 04/12/2025
It's the last week to enter! Get your submissions in by Friday, Dec. 5! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
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The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 13/11/2025
The Pudding Cup is back for 2025! We want to see your best non-commercial visual and data-driven projects! 🗓️ Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025 (free entry) 📢 Winners announced: the week of December 9, 2025 💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500 pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 04/11/2025
How much does Congress talk about democracy? How often do they worry that democracy is eroding? @alv9n.com's latest project analyzes every congressional speech in the last 145 years. pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 22/10/2025
I ruptured my achilles in January. Couch-bound for most of the winter, I read over a dozen books about walking journeys. I was inspired. Obsessed? I decided to walk across Massachusetts. You decide how to experience my story here: pudding.cool/2025/10/walk/
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What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts
A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 14/08/2025
Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights. pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 30/07/2025
The Pudding showing me, yet again, why it’s my favourite online publication.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 28/07/2025
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 07/07/2025
“Look at Mr. Frog! He’s so grumpy.” Wait, why are so many frogs boys? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social explores how we gender animals in kids’ stories—and why it matters. pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 16/06/2025
New project! What happens when strangers have to talk for 30 minutes? @alv9n.com's latest project tracks how their moods change as the conversation progresses. 🔗 pudding.cool/2025/06/hell...
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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · 13/06/2025
My latest piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social: 30 minutes with a stranger
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30 minutes with a stranger
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change
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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · 05/06/2025
Two years ago I made this interactive story about the loneliness epidemic: pudding.cool/2023/09/invi... The brilliant @matthew-daniels.bsky.social turned it into a video. His touch on this piece is really quite incredible.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 05/06/2025
New video on YouTube (an animated version of one of @alv9n.com's greatest hits): The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7w3...
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The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With
YouTube video by The Pudding
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 29/05/2025
New project: From stereotypes to breakthroughs, Hollywood's history with Asian and Asian American characters is complicated. This AAPI Heritage Month, dive into the data that reveals whether that's changed: pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 08/05/2025
Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Come for the math, stay for the existential crisis. pudding.cool/2025/04/birt...
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Are you more likely to die on your birthday?
Yes. We’ll run a study to show you how, and why.
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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Also this week — a pitching experience that was very worth it — my @puddingviz.bsky.social piece was on @kottke.org! bsky.app/profile/kott...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 16/04/2025
Have you ever bought a bottle of wine based on the label alone? Yeah, us too. Turns out, if a wine has an animal on the label that can help you predict price and quality. We looked at thousands of labels to help you find the best deals. pudding.cool/2025/04/wine...
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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What if we considered samples & interpolations as connections in sonic family trees? My project out today @puddingviz.bsky.social w/ @jaredwhalen.com @matthew-daniels.bsky.social lets you see and hear the genealogy of our popular music. pudding.cool/2025/04/musi...
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Riffy Bol @riffy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"If we zoom out, we can see [...] how “In The Hall of the Mountain King” affects music across 5 generations and 833 songs" pudding.cool/2025/04/musi... via @puddingviz.bsky.social
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How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 01/04/2025
New project (with 🔊🎵!) : @luriethereal.bsky.social explores legacies of music dna, such as a 2pac bassline being a sample of sample: two generations of music created by a James Brown riff.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 20/03/2025
What makes a good apology? We turned to an unlikely source, reality TV, for answers. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (#RHOSLC) is a masterclass in how not to apologize, which offers lessons for all of us on how to get it right. pudding.cool/2025/03/hous...
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The Real Apologies of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
What we can learn from watching reality stars apologize
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 13/03/2025
Answer this one-question survey, win some free merch! pudding.cool/projects/stu...
A screenshot of a survey form that reads: 

"In the 1980s, there was a study that produced surprising results about our predictive tendencies. We’re conducting a similar study today.

Instructions: Complete the line below. What did the bird do? Your response can be up to three sentences.

...and then the bird said, 'I must go to the river.' Upon arriving,"

with a blank box for your response.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 11/03/2025
English cows go “moo”, while French cows go “meuh”, and Korean cows go “음메”. Our newest project takes a look at how animal sounds translate across languages and cultures. pudding.cool/2025/03/lang...
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 03/03/2025
Do you think middle school sucks? You’re not alone. @alv9n.com uses a survey of millions of students to show how our brains and our sense of belonging change in middle school. 💻 pudding.cool/2025/02/midd... 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zL...
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The Middle Ages
Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their treacherous middle school years.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 22/02/2025
We want to know: what's YOUR fav piece from us?! 👀
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 29/01/2025
New video tutorials! You don't need to be a developer to make cool charts — here's how to recreate some of our latest graphics without using any code. pudding.cool/process/no-c...
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How to recreate our charts without code
Video tutorials: You don't need to know how to code to make cool charts! Here's how to do it.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 24/01/2025
Listen to authors David Mora and Michelle Jia talk more about their recent project, "Is the love song dying?", on @npr.org's All Things Considered. www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...
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Is the love song dying? Here's what the data says
Is the love song dying? NPR's Juana Summers speaks David Mora and Michelle Jia about their recent essay in The Pudding, which set out to answer that question.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 12/01/2025
Rolling Stone just released their top albums of the 21st Century with Beyonce’s Lemonade at #1. Last year, we looked at what could influence these rankings: popularity, original release medium, streaming availability, and the judge’s gender and age. pudding.cool/2024/03/grea...
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What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time?
Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 22/12/2024
Today the baseball world mourns leadoff legend Rickey Henderson, MLB’s leader in stolen bases, runs scored, & leadoff homers. Per our analysis, if he played today he would’ve likely batted 5th instead of 1st, potentially robbing us of his greatness. pudding.cool/2024/09/line...
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Batting by the Numbers
The evolution of baseball’s perfect lineup
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 10/12/2024
We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Pudding Cup! Show them some love 🫶 on this thread 🧵, and check out all of the winners and honorable mentions here: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 09/12/2024
From Girls' Generation to Stray Kids, sort these 35 K-pop groups by generation and see the results in real-time. Bonus: We're going to make an article with the data 👀 pudding.cool/2024/10/kpop...
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Defining Generations in K-pop
We want fans to have the opportunity to vote and determine the answers.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 05/12/2024
👀 pudding.cool/2021/10/judg...
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How Bad Is Your Streaming Music?
Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 04/12/2024
We're doing a crokinole board giveaway with Tracey Boards over on our Instagram. Details here: www.instagram.com/p/DDKdigixJP... And check out our crokinole data dive here: pudding.cool/2024/10/crok...
A custom crokinole board from Tracey Boards with The Pudding’s logo against a rustic wood panel background. The board is light wood with black lines, black logos, and a black rim. Overlaying text reads: “This crokinole board could be yours!” There is a hint to go to the next slide that says “What you get” paired with an arrow, along with Tracey Boards and The Pudding’s logos.A close up shot of 1/4 of the custom crokinole board showing The Pudding’s logo. The board is light wood with black lines, black logos, and a black rim. Overlaying text reads: “The Pudding branded crokinole board.” Text at the bottom keeps track of what your get: “Board.”A close up shot of 1/4 of the custom crokinole board showing The Pudding’s logo and black and white buttons. The board is light wood with black lines, black logos, and a black rim. Overlaying text reads: “2 sets of The Pudding branded crokinole buttons.” Text at the bottom keeps track of what your get: “Board + Buttons.”Overlaying text on a textured black background reads: “1 button baggie, 70g of playing wax, official rule book.” Text at the bottom keeps track of what your get: “Board + Buttons + Extras.”
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 29/11/2024
Just 2 days (today & tomorrow) left to enter The Pudding Cup! Get your data/visual submissions in!!! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
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The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories
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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 22/11/2024
Just one week left to enter The Pudding Cup, where we crown our favorite data visual passion projects of 2024. Get your submissions in by Nov. 30! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/
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The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories
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