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The PuddingThe Pudding explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.The Pudding Skip to main content Support us on PatreonJoin the newsletter About Us Our Team Pitch a Story Our Resources Privacy Polygraph Studio Follow Us Twitter Instagram YouTube TikTok RSS Support us on PatreonJoin the newsletter The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. What’s behind our name? 197 stories Our Stories The United States of Abortion Mazes: a maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies. October 2024 Welcome to Crokinole, the greatest game you’ve never heard of. October 2024 Organize these K-pop groups by generation, and we'll make an article using the results. October 2024 We looked at a decade of fanfic couples. See who gets shipped and why. October 2024 See how modern stats are reshaping baseball’s batting lineups. September 2024 There are 59,507 outdoor basketball courts in the U.S.A. Explore satellite imagery of all of them. September 2024 We had an AI attempt to make a data-driven story like we do at The Pudding. July 2024 We examined the social media and medical discourse on infant sleep training. July 2024 Explore science fiction worlds from the last few decades – and what these fictional settings tell us about ourselves. July 2024 We analyzed 1,281 court documents of alleged child abuse in New Hampshire youth facilities. Here’s what they show. June 2024 Explore how your city will feel in the future. June 2024 Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out. April 2024 The results from making a crowd-sourced flipbook animation. March 2024 We examined what shapes “greatness” in music, according to Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time. March 2024 We listened to 138 National Anthem performances so you don't have to. Here are the biggest divas. February 2024 Spotify tracks over 6,000 genres—everything from "rock" to "stomp-and-holler." Here's why that's cool. October 2023 What does a happily ever after look like? We look at over 1,400 romance covers to find out what visuals are used. October 2023 Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight. September 2023 A series of experimental clocks that connect data to time. August 2023 We're tracking how the hottest year on Earth is affecting U.S. heat records. August 2023 This is how rare it is for a hit song to be credited to an all-women songwriting team. July 2023 This is not a story. We made a browser extension to visualize how much each person is talking in Google Meet. June 2023 Introducing CRUTCH, Our New Metric For Asterisking NBA Champions. June 2023 We break down J Dilla's signature off-beat timefeel. June 2023 Country music is powered by women like Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris, but even they are barely played back-to-back. May 2023 Alvin loved his grandmother's fresh kimchi. But as he aged, could he rediscover the defining flavor of his childhood? May 2023 We unsubscribed from 16 subscription services and documented the ways companies made it challenging. May 2023 We made a short daily photo location guessing game that is a mashup of GeoGuessr and Wordle. April 2023 Portland, Maine, or Oregon? We calculated what place someone is most likely referring to, depending on where they are. March 2023 We used statistics to find out which NBA players have had the greatest unexpected performances. February 2023 We explored university syllabi to identify the literary canon. January 2023 Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it. December 2022 A journey of emotional awareness, where we uncover the power of naming and visualizing your feelings. December 2022 How does where you grow up impact your economic opportunity? Our author returns to his roots. November 2022 Watch women's hoops signature sneakers morph from Swoopes to Stewie. October 2022 One random person a day gets the chance to play against the internet in a game of words. Can you beat them? September 2022 Take an audio tour of Mexico City, seen through its street vendors. September 2022 We watched 100 episodes of The Big Bang Theory to figure out what the government in China censors, and why. August 2022 Is TikTok helping artists become commercially successful, or does the medium present a new opportunity worth pursuing? July 2022 Ever wonder what happens when you press play on your favorite song? We look how artists get paid from streaming music. June 2022 Curious what your teachers never taught you about the Aztec Gods? Here's an illustrated introduction. June 2022 In a collaboration with Vox, we tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral. June 2022 We’re tracking heat records in 400 U.S. cities, and you can look up your city. May 2022 We found this cool study about age and randomness, but we think it is flawed. Can you help us reproduce it? April 2022 We looked at more than 200 banknotes to see who’s represented on today’s currencies around the world. April 2022 Do movies with more coughs win Best Picture? A near flawless expulsion-based model that predicts a win for Dune. March 2022 How many days since a record temperature high? Check the always-updating scoreboard. March 2022 What could have been for your favorite NBA team? A data-driven revisionist history of the NBA draft. February 2022 Want to make your writing more accessible? Algorithms might not be the answer. February 2022 Analyzing more than 382,000 headlines to see how women are represented (or misrepresented) in the news. February 2022 We tried to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest by making AI-generated captions. January 2022 Learn how to hack your digital DNA to achieve the mid-level corporate career of your dreams. January 2022 We investigated 200 crackers to learn about food allergies and labelling. Warning: may contain troubling results. December 2021 We scraped the web to track one of the internet’s oldest images — one that lives on without the subject’s consent. October 2021 Through data and interviews, learn why the card game Spades is the perfect metaphor for the African-American community. August 2021 For groups to succeed, sometimes one person will shoulder more than their fair share of the work. Just ask LeBron James. August 2021 A visual history of Rickrolling — millions of comments, posts, and links — that’s never gonna let you down. July 2021 A story about hearing yourself in same-gender pop lyrics for the first time and tracking it with data ever since. June 2021 How many artists overshadow their band after going solo? We crunched the numbers. April 2021 To help you get out of your geographic music bubble, we found the songs that are most popular far away from you. April 2021 Science stepped up: on average there were ~11 new coronavirus articles coming out each hour, every hour throughout 2020. March 2021 Not all nudes are the same. We looked at how names for 6,816 makeup foundations can reveal bias in the beauty industry. March 2021 This model attempts to predict a wine’s quality. We detect a note of math, with a hint of 0s and 1s. March 2021 What do you do when your friends are sick of hearing about your breakup? Use a supercomputer to find a happier ending. March 2021 Our auditory analyst compares 770 artists’ live recordings with their and studio counterparts. Music snobs rejoice! February 2021 We tracked every time someone says "cool" in community. Cool. Cool. Cool. January 2021 Clue: We crunched the data on this controversial cookie and condiment crossword clue. Answer: Oreo. January 2021 How bad is your Spotify or Apple music? Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste. December 2020 Candles and LEDs don’t pay for themselves. We’ll demonstrate just exactly how much work goes into warding off the dark. December 2020 These playable mini crosswords let you get a feel for who gets included (and excluded) as clues and answers in puzzles. November 2020 Crosswords are known for being too old, too white, and too male. We backed that up with data. November 2020 Need a cute animal fix? Here’s a menagerie of live-streams from your favorite zoos and aquariums all in one place. November 2020 Philly openly reports about complaints against police officers. But we found that public doesn’t equal transparent. October 2020 Take the quiz: Can you identify when these photos were taken? It may not be as easy as it sounds. October 2020 We tracked K-pop group sizes and member roles over modern K-pop’s 30-year history. BTS Army click here. October 2020 A data comic to help you understand how the dance floor is generationally divided. September 2020 Using 50 years of data, we explored economic mobility and determined just how rigid the middle class really is. August 2020 We examined 271 presidential candidate branding designs from 1968–2020. Here’s who goes beyond the red, WHITE, and blue. August 2020 To help you clear out your inbox, we’ve compiled a data-driven newsletter of popular links in other newsletters. July 2020 We quizzed people on how well they recognized ’90s songs by their birth year. Britney and Whitney have staying power. July 2020 What physical traits are most tied to gender in literature? Eye roll: Women are all soft thighs and red lips. July 2020 Nearly 14.6M properties in America are in a flood zone, with more likely in the near future. We mapped the scenarios. June 2020 Using baby name data, we found the names that could be at risk of becomming future "Karens" in 10, 20, and 30 years. June 2020 Where do Tripadvisor reviewers go when they’re staying local? Our guide to 74,762 US attractions will tell you. May 2020 Do you smell what we’re cooking? It’s stories, facts, and pixel art drawings of over 200 masked wrestlers. May 2020 Take this quiz to see if you’re better than others your age at recognizing songs from history. April 2020 What happens when you combine music, a monkey, Joe Rogan, and probability? You get this experiment. April 2020 When it comes to sanitizing lyrics, where does Kidz Bop draw the line? (This was pre-WAP though; now all bets are off.) April 2020 To learn about the US’ evolving priorities, norms and biases, we collected every question to ever appear on a census. March 2020 Emojis are nice, but GIFs have range. We looked at how we use these looped clips of celebs to convey feelings. March 2020 These are the cities where you’ll need your umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh, eh. Seattle may be less rainy than you think. February 2020 Find your new jam here. We mapped several month of #1 songs in 3,000 places. February 2020 Do authors write where they know? We calculated the distance between where authors lived and where their books were set. February 2020 America has often been called a nation of immigrants. We mapped where they settled. January 2020 Will saying sorry save your reputation? We quantified the lasting impact of a YouTube appology and controversy. January 2020 Ranking player performance against pay, we found the worst, highest-paid NBA player, ever. Sorry, Melo. December 2019 From beehives, to afros, to bumpits: we looked at 30,000 yearbook photos to officially crown the "Big Hair Era." November 2019 Do you "lol?" Or "haha?’ Or "hehe?" We charted the usage, evolution, and perception of digital laughter. October 2019 When an elected official promises to transform prosecution, do their actions live up to their words? We investigated. October 2019 Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the number of exported adoptable dogs. Here’s where the dogs in your state are from. October 2019 We’ve devised pub crawl routes between UK watering holes of the same name. One Red Lion down, 338 to go. Cheers! October 2019 Is “ass” the most complicated word in English? We tracked down 201 historic usages and compared it to other slang. October 2019 Headlines say millennials killed napkins, marriage, and Applebees. We say, "you’re welcome." What’s next for this group? September 2019 Are men singing higher in pop songs today? Biebs, the JoBros, the Weeknd, we’re coming for you... with data. August 2019 Are book covers starting to look the same? We organized over 5,000 top-seling book covers by visual similarity. July 2019 Our 2019 hipster summer reading list will introduce you to an artisanal selection of obscure books before they’re cool. June 2019 Using news coverage, we plotted how one highly unethical study on vaccines has caused outsized, irreparable harm. June 2019 Sit back and relax as we take you on an updated journey through every Billboard Top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era. June 2019 We made a map that replaces UK city names with their most Wikipedia’ed resident. June 2019 We made a map that replaces US city names with their most Wikipedia’ed resident. May 2019 Billie Jean is not my lover, but it’s one of the names we tracked for this project. Here’s how often names are in songs. May 2019 Want to access the raw data behind an academic paper? OK. Has it been a few years? Yeah... good luck with that. May 2019 Since the 1950s, hyphenated last names in pro-sports have been on the rise. The WNBA leads the way, as it so often does. May 2019 The NBA has a defensive three seconds problem. We tracked how often players are camped in the paint. May 2019 We looked at 19 years of covers to see if Vogue represents women of all shades. You can guess how this went. April 2019 Why are European regions shifting their borders? We follow the money. April 2019 Computers now have four different methods to determine what you’ll type now/next/nexis April 2019 We looked at every political party platform between 1840 and 2016 to find how often women’s issues appeared in the text. March 2019 Can you spell the hardest names in the NBA? Or will you miss and spell H-O-R-S-E? March 2019 How do you measure who’s the biggest pop star? We tackle that question a bunch of different ways. March 2019 Do high school basketball stars live up to the hype? Here’s how many find success in the NBA. March 2019 Think Gyllenhaal is a hard name to spell? It gets worse. Here are the many ways to misspell big names in pop culture. February 2019 School dress codes send the wrong messages about womens’ and girls’ bodies. An analysis of 481 policies shows why. February 2019 Who’s the most prolific rapper of all time? We try to answer that by measure vocabulary. Happy debating. January 2019 These are the countries that have most preoccupied Americans since 1900, according to New York Times headlines. December 2018 We created a brief history of the past 100 years from New York Times headlines. And yes, there are word clouds. December 2018 This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities. Hint: perspective helps. December 2018 Because you just can’t get enough of them, we found every boy band to chart the Hot 100 since 1980. November 2018 Dear Abby, I’m looking for an analysis of 20,000 advice column letters. Sincerely, Curious. Hi Curious, click this link. November 2018 Welcome to Titletown! Discover the most successful cities across baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer. November 2018 We charted new terrain in these 3D maps of human population. October 2018 From Cardi B to Carson Wentz: we charted the path to fame from Wikipedia pageviews. October 2018 Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs from its the first release in 1985 to the present. September 2018 Here’s who was the most popular person on Wikipedia ever day in 2018. September 2018 Who has more emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo-rap or Dashboard Confessional? We measured each album’s sentiment. August 2018 Let’s get reel: who’s using film and who’s using digital in the movie industry? August 2018 We went there. A data investigation into the travesty that is women’s pockets. August 2018 What Wikipedia pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die. RIP. August 2018 The job automation crisis isn’t as simple as turning truck driver’s into developers. We break it down with data. August 2018 Instead of measuring a city by it’s GDP or population, what if we measure it by its airport traffic? July 2018 No TMI here, just 20,759 people describing their experiences with contraception... and us charting it. July 2018 We looked at 1.2 million parliamentary speeches to show how gender representation changes the conversation. July 2018 We looked at 500,000 congressional speeches to show how gender representation changes the conversation. July 2018 We mapped how "gayborhoods" are divided by gender. It’s true: men are from Chelsea, women are from Park Slope. June 2018 Fenty is a champion for makeup inclusivity, but how do other brands compare? We charted their foundation skin tones. June 2018 The good, the rad, and the gnarly. We took a look at what makes a skate soundtrack. June 2018 A supercut of the most-viewed NBA plays from 2017–18. Warning: this video contains a high dosage of LeBron footage. May 2018 Think you’ve heard that before? Turns out, hit songs are becoming less musically diverse. May 2018 We baked the most average chocolate chip cookie. Recipes written by computers — what could go wrong? May 2018 Which athletes qualify as one-hit wonders? We charted the greatest single-season anomalies in the last 30 years. April 2018 Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. We take on the birthday paradox. April 2018 In a love letter to NYC and Seattle, we pinpoint the types of businesses that distinguish one neighborhood from another. March 2018 We watched Ali Wong’s Baby Cobra too many times and charted out how she built the routine around a laughter climax. February 2018 Here’s an interactive guide that introduces and explores waveforms. Volume most defintiely on. February 2018 We mapped which countries have laws and guidelines around declaring brain death. February 2018 What is the taco capital of the US? Where does BBQ reign supreme? These maps have you covered. February 2018 Via postcards from the Curiosity Rover on Mars, we prove that talking about the weather is a universal habit. January 2018 There are three sides to every cable news story: MSNBC’s, Fox News’, and CNN’s. The contrast in on-screen text is stark. January 2018 We can all agree that drain hair is gross. But it’s a thin line between love and hate for more than 3,000 other topics. December 2017 A visual walkthrough of how we see Earth from space through the eyes of satellites. Spoiler alert: it’s still not flat. October 2017 How would you define an NBA superteam? We couldn’t decide so we built this tool to give you the power. October 2017 What is black and white and red all over? The racial gap between a newspaper’s staff and the community it covers. October 2017 In a musial language that’s gone worldwide, we uncover the words that are "most hip-hop" September 2017 If you exclude Ira Glass’ voice, who gets the most airtime on This American Life: men or women? Stay tuned to hear more. September 2017 In 2017, we mapped the cities and places with the worst access to abortion based on driving times. September 2017 Men "gallop" and women "giggle," at least according to the gendered tropes found in 2,000 scripts. August 2017 We measured the dialogue from every episode of The Office and it sure is a mouthful. (“That’s what she said.") August 2017 I’m dining solo, I’m dining solo, solo (Jason Derulo voice). We looked at the dining habits and companions of Americans. July 2017 Female characters are largely absent from superhero comics — but when they are included, how are they depicted? July 2017 Everytime a job is automated, the Republican Party benefits. July 2017 What’s best for animals in aquariums? We look to the past & present to gauge the future of captive whales and dolphins. July 2017 A story about how film plots mirror (or shape) historical events. June 2017 Has American literature made progress toward gender equality, or is commercial success still linked to an author’s bio? June 2017 Hurricanes, bankruptcies, and the World Series are all said to spark baby booms.But is there any truth to these tales? May 2017 In the words of Ms. Spears, "Oops, I did it again." We show how pop lyrics are getting more repetitive. May 2017 What’s the most timeless NBA play? We turn to YouTube views to determine which have the most replay value. May 2017 Let’s raise a pint to the microbrew capitals of the U.S. Cheers! April 2017 Why does the U.S. lead the world in incarceration? We try to answer this question with data. March 2017 Here’s how Russell Westbrook made NBA history in 2017. March 2017 In the NBA, is home court advantage down to favorable home court officiating? We break down the stats. March 2017 Like teams in the Super Bowl, the popularity of Oscar contenders can also be regional. Here are the hotspots from 2017. February 2017 A lot can happen in the last 2:00 of an NBA game and the refs don’t always get it right. We tracked the calls in 2018. February 2017 We used Google search data to measure slang, and it has us shook. February 2017 Inspired by Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th, we mapped the change from "slave to criminal with one amendment." January 2017 What are the odds an artist will make it big? Three years and 75,000 concerts later, we finally have an answer. January 2017 This is the site where it happens. We visualized every line from Hamilton. December 2016 We analyzed 12,147 images to see how the media covers Trump and Clinton. It’s not a pretty picture. October 2016 An interactive story of what happens when a genius samples a genius: Robert Glasper, Miles Davis and “Ghetto Walkin.” September 2016 Hindsight is 20/20. We redraft decades of NBA picks using their career stats to find the breakouts and the busts. September 2016 Miles Davis is mentioned on 2,452 Wikipedia pages. We analyzed them all. June 2016 These are the most unlikely NBA comebacks from the 2015–16 season. Harden, Curry, James: the gang’s all here. April 2016 This is the largest analysis of film dialogue by gender. Yes, even Disney has films with fewer lines for women. April 2016 What counts as "punk" music? We turned to Spotify and YouTube playlists to answer this question. January 2016 Here are the writers, directors, and producers who make films that fail the Bechdel test. January 2016 Is it an east coast vs. west coast thing? Every hip hop record label, since 1989, sorted by Billboard chart performance. November 2015 We used Spotify plays to track the most timeless songs of all-time. September 2015 How Outkast brought their southern roots to hip hop, in charts. March 2014 the-pudding-teammatt-danielsrussell-samorailia-blindermanjan-diehmcaitlyn-ralphkevin-litman-navarromichelle-pera-mcgheealvin-changahmed-bendalyvivian-liandrew-park
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