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thepudding, 1 month ago to random

This is a teenager. We’ll call him Alex.
Our latest story follows Alex — along with hundreds of other teenagers — for the next 24 years until they reach their later 30s.

💻 Interactive version: https://pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers/

📽️ Video version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mixv0Hk

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thepudding, 1 month ago to random

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!

Text on a black background that reads: “Ahmed Bendaly is a data scientist by profession, a visual designer by passion, and a statistics nerd by confession.” Plus a black and white photo of Ahmed.
Text on a black background that reads: “Vivian Li is journalist and design engineer studying at USC’s Iovine and Young Academy.” Plus a black and white photo of Vivian.
Text on a black background that reads: “Andrew is a student at Columbia University. He once scored two points in an intramural basketball game.” Plus a black and white photo of Andrew.

thepudding, 2 months ago to random

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

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thepudding, 3 months ago to random

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.
https://pudding.cool/2024/02/anthems/

thepudding, 3 months ago to random

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!
https://pudding.cool/career/cohort/

thepudding, 5 months ago to random

We're excited to announce the winners of the 🏆 2023 Pudding Cup — our picks for the best visual and data-driven stories of the year!

https://pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

thepudding, 6 months ago to random

It's baccckkkk! We're excited to announce the 7th annual Pudding Cup where we pick the best visual and data-driven stories of 2023.

📅 Deadline: Thursday, Nov. 30
📢 Winners announced: the week of Dec. 11
💸 Three winners will each get $1,500

Enter here! https://pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

thepudding, 6 months ago to random

New project! We explore how the most popular genres have shifted over the past 7 years, with K-pop now having more streams than R&B and EDM on Spotify. https://pudding.cool/2023/10/genre/

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thepudding, 7 months ago to random

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. Too bad, we did! 📚💖
We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers to find trends in the level of raunchiness, the art style, and the representation of racial diversity. https://pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-covers/

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thepudding, 7 months ago to random

🔎 Go behind the scenes with Alvin Chang on his latest project: https://bigcharts.substack.com/p/invisible-epidemic

👀 And check out the story here: https://pudding.cool/2023/09/invisible-epidemic/

thepudding, 7 months ago to random

This is “Martin.”
At 7:20am he watches TV.
At 10:15am he gets groceries.
At noon he eats lunch.
At 5:10pm he watches more TV.
At 8:30pm he goes to bed.
“Martin” lives a pretty isolated life. Find out why this matters in our newest piece.
https://pudding.cool/2023/09/invisible-epidemic/

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thepudding, 8 months ago to random

Introducing clock number 2 in our data clocks series: a clock where the time is mentioned on YouTube. 🕑🕓https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/videos/

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thepudding, 9 months ago to random

Check out our newest project: a clock where the time is in a song title. https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/songs/

thepudding, 10 months ago to random

New Project! We analyzed the remarkable trend that most hit songs are written by all men. How often has a top 5 hit been written by only women in the last 10 years? It’s likely rarer than you think.

https://pudding.cool/2023/07/songwriters/

thepudding, 10 months ago to random

Are you talking too much in meetings? Do you think other people are? Our newest project — Pass The Mic 👉🎤 — is a Chrome extension that displays a bar chart comparison of the share of talking during a Google Meet. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pass-the-mic/pjhefpcmnfnepcpcgbjgnphmpalihbhl

thepudding, 11 months ago to random

When making music, there are rules to follow. But the best things come when you break them. In our latest piece, we deconstruct the phenomenon of "Dilla Feel", a game-changing way of thinking about rhythm pioneered by producer J Dilla.

https://pudding.cool/2023/06/groove/