The Pudding

The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.

2024-12-09

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-surv

2024-07-30

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/

2024-07-26

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/sleep-tra

2024-07-12

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=nRQ2vMpw-n

💻 Or play around with the interactive version:
pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi/

2024-06-26

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

2024-05-16

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-kick

2024-04-09

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: pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers

📽️ Video version:
youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mixv0H

2024-03-27

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: “We’re excited to announce our 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers to author a project on The Pudding.” There are three black and white photos of the Cohort members on the right from top to bottom: Ahmed, Vivian, and Andrew.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.
2024-03-11

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

2024-02-13

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/anthems/

2024-01-25

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/

2023-12-13

We've added over 100 new inputs for 2023. It's time to get your music judged! 🤖

pudding.cool/2021/10/judge-my-

2023-12-11

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!

pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

2023-11-13

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! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

2023-11-09

This is the first year in 12 years that a woman (Lainey Wilson) was named the #CMAawards entertainer of the year. Since 1967, only 16% of the winners have been women. Kinda hard for women to win when country radio avoids playing them back-to-back. pudding.cool/2023/05/country-r

2023-11-09

Since 1967, only 20% of #CMAawards single of the year winners have been women or women-only ensembles — though props to Luke Combs for immediately shouting out Tracy Chapman. Kinda hard for women to win when country radio avoids playing them back-to-back. pudding.cool/2023/05/country-r

2023-10-26

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. pudding.cool/2023/10/genre/

2023-10-24

Just in time for the 2023 #NBA tipoff, we've updated our morphing #AirJordan piece to include the 38s.
pudding.cool/2018/09/jordans/

2023-10-16

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. pudding.cool/2023/10/romance-c

2023-09-29

🔎 Go behind the scenes with Alvin Chang on his latest project: bigcharts.substack.com/p/invis

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

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