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#223

Jun 2026

ethical nba champions

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?
#222

Jun 2026

lawn mowing game

Mow a series of lawns as efficiently as you can. We will publish the analysis in a few weeks.
#221

Jun 2026

restaurant menu history

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
#220

Jun 2026

5,000 restaurant menus

Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library's archive of historic menus.
#219

Jun 2026

love story

Tracking 1,000+ people through the ups and downs of their relationships.
#218

May 2026

k-pop generations

Two friends tell the story of their friendship through every generation of K-pop.
#217

May 2026

similes

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
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#216

Mar 2026

infertility journey

An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.
#215

Feb 2026

happy map

Mapping 100,000 moments of human happiness.
#214

Feb 2026

women's sizing

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women.
#213

Dec 2025

musical motifs

Visualizing how musicals use motifs to tell stories.
#212

Nov 2025

democracy

Every time someone said 'democracy' in Congress.
#211

Oct 2025

walkachusetts

A visually-aided journal of a very long walk home.
#210

Aug 2025

dicing onions

What is the best way to dice an onion to get the most uniform piece sizes?
Some of my favorite projects: country radio diversity , women's pockets and morphing air jordans .

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Pudding Staff
#209

Jul 2025

nyc street view

What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
#208

Jul 2025

kids book animals

How and why do we gender animals in stories?
#207

Jun 2025

strangers talking

Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change.
#206

Jun 2025

loneliness video

A six-minute video about the loneliness epidemic, in data.
#205

May 2025

asian representation

How accurately are Asian Americans cast in Hollywood?
#204

May 2025

birthday effect

Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes.
#203

Apr 2025

wine animals

We try to predict the price and quality of a bottle of wine based on the animal on the label.
#202

Apr 2025

music dna legacies

We trace musical DNA from the classical "Hall of the Mountain King" to 2pac's "Hit Em Up."
#201

Mar 2025

tv apologies

What we can learn from watching reality stars apologize.
#200

Mar 2025

animal sounds

Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
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#199

Mar 2025

middle school sucks

Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their trecherous middle school years.
#198

Nov 2024

sitters vs standers

The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand.
#197

Nov 2024

love songs

Is love dead in pop music? We checked all 5,141 Top 10 hits since 1958.