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/

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 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/

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.

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

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.

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 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...

Also this week — a pitching experience that was very worth it — my @puddingviz.bsky.social piece was on @kottke.org! bsky.app/profile/kott...

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...

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...

"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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

Just 2 days (today & tomorrow) left to enter The Pudding Cup! Get your data/visual submissions in!!! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

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/

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...

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...

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/

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...