Can an AI make a data-driven, visual story? 🔗
We review and grade what it created. [...]
The Pudding
Posts
Is Sleep Training Harmful? 🔗
Misinformation and facts behind the internet’s most polarizing parenting debate. [...]
Who killed the world? 🔗
Explore science fiction worlds from the last few decades – and what these fictional settings tell us about ourselves [...]
Failures to Act 🔗
We analyzed 1,281 court documents of alleged child abuse in New Hampshire youth facilities. Here’s what they show. [...]
Climate Zones 🔗
Explore how your city will feel in the future. [...]
This is a teenager 🔗
Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out [...]
The Flipbook Experiment 🔗
The results from making a crowd-sourced flipbook animation. [...]
What Makes an Album the Greatest of All Time? 🔗
Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings [...]
Quantifying the Diva-ness of 138 National Anthem Performances 🔗
We compared 138 US National Anthem performances to see who is the ultimate diva [...]
You should look at this chart about music genres. 🔗
How Spotify's expanding catalog reflects 2023's musical frontier [...]
What Does a Happily Ever After Look Like? 🔗
We looked at over 1,400 romance covers to measure raunchiness, art style, and diversity. [...]
24 hours in an invisible epidemic 🔗
Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight. [...]
Data Clocks 🔗
Clocks that connect data to time [...]
Mapping Record-High Heat in U.S. Cities 🔗
We're tracking how the hottest year on Earth is affecting heat records. [...]
Songwriting credits since 1958, broken down by gender 🔗
Women are superstars on stage, but still rarely get to write songs [...]
How much each person is talking in Google Meet 🔗
A browser extension for your next meeting. [...]
Asterisking NBA Champions 🔗
The official haters guide for salty fans. [...]
They Won't Play A Lady-O on Country Radio 🔗
Examining back-to-back plays by gender, race, and sexual orientation [...]
The search for my kimchi 🔗
I loved my grandmother's fresh kimchi. But as I aged, tasting the defining flavor of my childhood became elusive. [...]