“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...

As a lifelong fan of the @wnba.com I’m stoked to see teams get added in Detroit, Philly, & Cleveland. But as a queer southerner, I wish expansion was happening here too! More LGBTQ+ people live in the South than any other U. S. region. HUGE fan base, but regressive politics keep teams/players away.

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...

New project out today! We used ChatGPT vision to help us identify animals on wine labels so we could find the best animal for your price point. Follow along here for more details: 🧵

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.

One of our cats Ichabod (aka Icky, aka Blickus, you know how cat names devolve) LOVES to watch CatTV videos on our Google hub, but sometimes he gets so excited he frantically swipes away & accidentally plays songs. This is his playlist: Kendrick Lamar, “Not Like Us”

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...

Just updated my morphing #wnba kicks project with A'Ja's new shoe. pudding.cool/2022/09/wnba... Because I'm so stoked about the A'Ones, I'm giving out 5 posters (the-pudding.printify.me/product/8358...). Comment if you want one! Random winners picked by end of week. Must have US mailing address.

At @puddingviz.bsky.social we get a lot of questions about what tools we use. There’s initial excitement, but when we answer w/ something like “ it’s coded from scratch,” you can feel the creative spark dim. So, I made tutorials recreating our charts without code. Now you can make them too!

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...

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/

I’m holding out hope that there’s more to this identity, but my first impression was mass transit.

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/

So… where are all my Bozeman gays? 💁🏻🏳️‍🌈

5 years after this project published & I’m still soaking up being called a “pockets expert.” Hear me talk about getting kicked out of a store + my love of cargo pants on the Data is Plural podcast. 👖 Project: pudding.cool/2018/08/pock... 🎧 Podcast: podcast.data-is-plural.com/2159594/1401...

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/

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/coun...

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/coun...