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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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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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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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"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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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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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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Answer this one-question survey, win some free merch! pudding.cool/projects/stu...

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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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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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We want to know: what's YOUR fav piece from us?! 👀

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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 US workforce can be divided into “sitters” (like programmers and lawyers) and “standers” (like servers and construction workers). In our newest piece, @alv9n.com looks at what we can learn from this labor split. 💻: pudding.cool/2024/11/sitt... 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE_E...

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New project! Is love dead in pop music? 💕📉 We checked all 5,141 Top 10 hits since 1958 to see how much has actually changed. (Spoiler: it's not what most people think) pudding.cool/2024/11/love...

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It's baccckkkk! We're excited to announce the 8th annual Pudding Cup where we pick the best visual and data-driven stories of 2024. 📅 Deadline: Saturday, Nov. 30 📢 Winners announced: the week of Dec. 9 💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500 pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

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Having trouble following who’s who in the NBA recently? You’re not alone. @tylermachado.com took a look at the data behind the increasingly vibrant (and maybe a little confusing) landscape of NBA jerseys. pudding.cool/2024/10/nba-...

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Abortion access in the U.S. is full of twists, turns, and roadblocks. To illustrate how difficult it is to get care, we built a maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s policies. This is the United States of Abortion Mazes. pudding.cool/2024/10/abor...

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Do you know about the game of Crokinole? No!? Well then, come learn how amazing the world's best competitive players are. Plus, we made a playable simulator! pudding.cool/2024/10/crok...

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New project! Using 11 years of relationSHIP data from Archive of Our Own we break down why fanfic is hella gay and goes well beyond the source material. Just like fanfic, it’s told in chapters: 1. Slash, 2. Canon, 3. Real Person Fiction. pudding.cool/2024/10/fanf...

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Warning: AI wrote this tweet... and our latest story. We challenged an AI to do our jobs at The Pudding. From idea generation to coding, see how it performed: pudding.cool/2024/07/ai/

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New project! We examine one of the most debated questions in parenting: whether or not to sleep train your child. In this essay, we look at sleep training opinions across social media, popular media, and medical research. pudding.cool/2024/07/slee...

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Who killed the world? We analyzed the top 200 sci-fi films from every decade. Here’s what we learned. 📹 Watch the video version: youtube.com/watch?v=nRQ2... 💻 Or play around with the interactive version: pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi/

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We collaborated with NHPR's investigative team, Document, to analyze 1,281 court documents of alleged child abuse at New Hampshire’s youth facilities. Explore the staggering scale and detail from one of the largest youth detention abuse scandals in American history. ydcpodcast.org

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We've updated our morphing WNBA Kicks piece to add in 2024 signature shoe drops from Sabrina Ionescu and Breanna Stewart, and we CANNOT wait to be able to do this for A'ja Wilson next year! pudding.cool/2022/09/wnba...

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Our latest story follows Alex — along with hundreds of other teenagers — for the next 24 years until they reach their later 30s. 💻 Interactive version: pudding.cool/2024/03/teen... 📽️ Video version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1...

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Drum roll please! 🥁 We're excited to announce the 3 members of our inaugural Cohort: Ahmed Bendaly, Vivian Li, and Andrew Park. Let's show them some love!

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New project! We examine 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” rankings pudding.cool/2024/03/grea...

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We listened to 138 performances of the "Star Spangled Banner" so you don’t have to. Introducing the Diva Score: a way to measure who’s doing the MOST. pudding.cool/2024/02/anth...

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We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers. 🧑‍🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads 🗓️ June 18 – Sept 1 💰 $7,200 stipend 📝 More details at this link! pudding.cool/career/cohort/

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We've added over 100 new inputs for 2023. It's time to get your music judged! 🤖 pudding.cool/2021/10/judg...

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