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

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...

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/

Pitch a Story

How to collaborate on a story with The Pudding.

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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...

Ethical NBA Championships, Ranked

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?

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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...

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...

A History of Menus is a Menu of History

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

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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/...

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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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...

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...

Growing Up With K-Pop

A story of two friends growing up together alongside K-pop.

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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...

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/

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...

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...

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...

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/

The Pudding Cup

The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories

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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...

It's the last week to enter! Get your submissions in by Friday, Dec. 5! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

The Pudding Cup

The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories

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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/

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/

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...

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/

What it’s like to walk across Massachusetts

A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.

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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...

The Pudding showing me, yet again, why it’s my favourite online publication.

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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...

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...

“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...

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...

My latest piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social: 30 minutes with a stranger

30 minutes with a stranger

Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change

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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.

The Pudding@pudding.cool · last yr.

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...

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...

The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With

YouTube video by The Pudding

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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...

Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Come for the math, stay for the existential crisis. pudding.cool/2025/04/birt...

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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