The Pudding

New project! Contributor @owenlacey.dev asks whether Kevin Bacon is the most-connected actor in Hollywood, per the popular game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. 🔗: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

Door 1, 2, or 3? 🚪✨ Explore a room of thousands of humans wrestling with whether there is an afterlife—and see how religion, culture, and aging changes where we stand in the room. pudding.cool/2026/10/life...

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/

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...

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 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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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

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...

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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...