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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...
June 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
pudding.cool
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...
Growing Up With K-Pop
A story of two friends growing up together alongside K-pop.
pudding.cool
May 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
bramblebean.bsky.social
An extremely old piece…. 2022 road trip. With @ThePudding @Whatsupperpupper and @Justarealgooddogmom did Hunter even show any of you this when he finished it? Or was it lost to the void?
March 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
hesgen.com
This may be over-egging thepudding, but that doesn't mean Russia won't do it. The Kremlin may be counting on European political and military disarray, and that, sadly, is very real.
thestudyofwar.bsky.social Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · Feb 13
Denmark's Defense Intelligence Service assessed that Russia may have the capabilities to launch a full-scale war against NATO in the next 5 years, which is consistent w/ ISW's assessments about Russian efforts to restructure and prepare its military and society for a future conflict w/ NATO. (1/3)
February 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
infobeautiful.bsky.social
Are love songs dying? A timely analysis from @thepudding
https://pudding.cool/2024/11/love-songs/
A visualization showing popular non-love songs across decades from the '60s to '20s. Three songs are highlighted: 'BUY U A DRANK' by T-Pain and Yung Joc (2007), 'SOMEONE LIKE YOU' by Adele (2011), and 'WAP' by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion (2020). The background consists of grey and purple circular dots arranged in a pattern, with a section labeled 'Serenade' visible in the '70s era. Each song title has a play button icon next to it. The image includes text at the top questioning 'Boomer Bob's' narrow view of love in music, suggesting these songs tell a different story about love in pop music."
February 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
sebastianlammers.com
@thepudding
Bravo, great story!
It's very cool to see that new generations of judges bring in a new generation of "greatest albums".

I love how you managed to create a feeling of consistency between the layout shifts via transitioning the matching elements.

📊
March 12, 2024 at 8:24 AM
fediverse.stefanbohacek.online
"What if today’s most iconic sounds aren’t just from today, but are inherited from a family of sound."

https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/

via @thepudding

#music #data #dataviz
The Pudding (@thepudding@vis.social)
44 Posts, 1 Following, 590 Followers · The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.
vis.social
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
pudding.cool
Check out our YouTube channel. Russell live coded a project from start to finish and live coded the making of our website in Svelte. The videos might be a bit dated because code bases change so
rapidly, but they should give you a feel for how we code.

m.youtube.com/@thepudding/...
The Pudding
Ideas debated in culture, explained with visual essays We wield original #data 📈, primary research, and interactivity. Read all 150+ projects at https://pudding.cool
m.youtube.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
fediverse.stefanbohacek.online
Join this @thepudding experiment and mow the (virtual) lawn "as efficiently as possible".

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/game/

More from their blog: https://buttondown.com/thepudding/archive/special-dispatch-from-the-pudding-4066/

#data #dataviz #datavisualization #experiment #efficiency
Lawn Mowing Experiment
Mow a series of lawns as efficiently as you can. We will publish the analysis in a few weeks.
pudding.cool
June 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
fediverse.stefanbohacek.online
Some light reading for a bit of a distraction, if you will: Vivian Li from @thepudding looked at how "cultures can hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently".

https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/

#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #data #dataviz #thepudding
Screenshot from the linked page showing a grid of transcriptions of cat sounds in 21 languages with color-coded parts of the word.
March 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
tksajeev.bsky.social
The New York Times Graphics Editor Marco Hernandez analyzes and identifies the most impactful infographics published in 2025 across a range of publications

newspaperdesign.org/2025/12/23/t...

#TheNewYorkTimes #TheWashingtonPost #Reuters #Volkskrant #ThePudding
December 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
davor.fyi
A website as an amazing visual storytelling medium - this is how it's done! #uxdesign #webdesign

https://pudding.cool/2024/10/nba-uniforms/?utm_source=thepudding&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-pudding-explains-queuing-theory-abortion
November 9, 2024 at 2:19 PM
pauloakira.bsky.social
I didn’t check previous suggestions, but you can check Neal.fun website for ideas, ThePudding is another good place to go, or you can simply report on the recent announcement by BandCamp regarding AI.
Neal.fun
Games, visualizations, interactives and other weird stuff.
Neal.fun
January 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
davor.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy
A website as an amazing visual storytelling medium - this is how it's done! #uxdesign #webdesign

https://pudding.cool/2024/10/nba-uniforms/?utm_source=thepudding&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-pudding-explains-queuing-theory-abortion
November 9, 2024 at 2:20 PM
keab42.bsky.social
I Built This City by ThePudding

Ellen is an adventurer. When she dies two duplicates respawn. Unfortunately she dies a lot.

Now she's working out how to keep a growing number of Ellens safe in an old abandoned village while dealing with a newly-spawned dungeon.
August 10, 2026 at 4:17 PM
firusvg.bsky.social
Why are some humans surprisingly good at solving complex path-planning problems like mowing a lawn? 🌿

#ThePudding turned this classic #CompSci challenge into an interactive experiment with over 30,000 players. Test your route efficiency here:

pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/

#DataViz #PathPlanning
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
pudding.cool
August 5, 2026 at 6:04 PM
radiomachen.bsky.social
Wow!Eine meiner Lieblingsseiten mal wieder mit einem tollen Projekt! ThePudding hat visualisiert,was Menschen erleben,die mit Fremden sprechen. Spoiler:Sie fühlen sich besser.Fast immer.Schaut selbst:
pudding.cool/2025/06/hell...
Ist ein Booster für alle,die zu verzweifeln drohen an der Menschheit.
30 minutes with a stranger
Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change
pudding.cool
June 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
1234mimijones.bsky.social
@theonion.com
Neeeever ceases to entertain!

💁🏼‍♀️ Cults! Ya never know just what you’ve signed up for… Til you’re hip or neck deep in the fine details!

But Then… 😬You’ve already eaten ThePudding!

CYA! Be careful what you wish for! ✌🏼

#DV1
Polite Cult Member Assumes Reason Penises Cut Off Will Eventually Come Up In Conversation
BOULDER, CO—Assuring himself that the rationale for the ritualized surgery would be revealed in due course, cult member Jason Fitzpatrick told reporters Friday that he assumed the reason everyone’s pe...
theonion.com
May 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
verasa267.bsky.social
Para quem tem interesse em saber como os EUA vem lidando com a questão do aborto
pudding.cool/2024/10/abortion-mazes/?utm_source=thepudding&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-pudding-explains-queuing-theory-abortion
The United States of Abortion Mazes
To illustrate how difficult it is to get abortion care in the United States, we built a maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies.
pudding.cool
November 8, 2024 at 7:42 PM
fediverse.stefanbohacek.online
@thepudding has "pulled every simile in the form “as ___ as ___” from tens of thousands of fiction books for the top 500 most common adjectives".

Here's what that revealed.

https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes/

#dataviz #datavisualization #language #writing #books #similes
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
pudding.cool
May 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
bemeredith.bsky.social
I just found out about puddling.cool and I’m obsessed. @puddingviz.bsky.social
The Pudding (@puddingviz.bsky.social)
The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/ Email: sup@pudding.cool Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
puddingviz.bsky.social
May 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM
cogdog.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
@stefan @thepudding That was more than pudding cool, I hit 85% efficiency. Curious to read results.
June 18, 2026 at 6:35 PM