The Best of The Pudding
10+ most popular The Pudding articles, as voted by our community.
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The Pudding on Beer
What city is the microbrew capital of the US?
Using beer review data to rank the best cities in the country
The Pudding on Culture
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.»
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 Pudding on Economics
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 Music
Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
The Pudding on Scrollytelling
Easier scrollytelling with position sticky
Leaning on CSS to simplify the process.
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 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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How Artists Get Paid From Streaming
We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.
Get out of your geographic music bubble
The songs that are popular, far away from you
«The world is a musical cornocopia of ‘hits.’ Some songs are national exports, crossing cultural and linguistic boundaries. Others conform to their native country’s borders.»
Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image
Why one of the Internet’s oldest images lives on without its subject’s consent
Photo quiz: This is an experiment about how we view history
We’re going to show you a series of photos and ask you when each picture was taken.
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