The Best of The Pudding
10+ most popular The Pudding articles, as voted by our community.
The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. Email: sup@pudding.cool Support: http://patreon.com/thepudding
The Pudding on Dark Patterns
How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
Unsubscribing should be easy. It’s not.
The Pudding on Data Visualization
How are you doing?
A journey of emotional awareness, where we uncover the power of naming and visualizing your feelings.
The Birthday Paradox Experiment
Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. Because math.
The Pudding on Music
You should look at this chart about music genres
How Spotify's expanding catalog reflects 2023's musical frontier
The Pudding on Scrollytelling
How to implement scrollytelling with six different libraries
In this post, I look at how to tackle a simple scroll-driven chart using six different libraries, and share my thoughts on each implementation.
The Pudding on Wealth
Why the super rich are inevitable
Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.
The Pudding on Women
Women's Pockets are Inferior.
If you wear women's clothes, you already know this. But now we've got the data to show it.
When Women Make Headlines
A visual essay about the (mis)representation of women in the news
The Pudding on Writing
What makes writing more readable?
Looking at how to make writing easier to read
«Writing text that can be understood by as many people as possible seems like an obvious best practice. But from news media to legal guidance to academic research, the way we write often creates barriers to who can read it. Plain language—a style of writing that uses simplified sentences, everyday vocabulary, and clear structure—aims to remove those barriers.»
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
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The Big [Censored] Theory
A case study on how the government censors TV in China.
«These removals reflect the government’s objective of encouraging particular identities and behaviors by eliminating mentions of any others.»
We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it.
Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
How Artists Get Paid From Streaming
We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.
24 hours in an invisible epidemic
Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight
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