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#200
Mar 2025
Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
#199
Follow hundreds of kids as they navigate their trecherous middle school years.
#198
Nov 2024
The American worker divide: Those who sit, and those who stand.
#197
Is love dead in pop music? We checked all 5,141 Top 10 hits since 1958.
#196
Oct 2024
Queues are everywhere we go—discover the hidden mechanics that keep them moving smoothly.
#195
We took a look at the data behind the increasingly vibrant (and maybe a little confusing) landscape of NBA jerseys.
#194
A maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies.
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#193
Welcome to Crokinole, the greatest game you’ve never heard of.
#192
Organize these K-pop groups by generation, and we'll make an article using the results.
#191
We looked at a decade of fanfic couples. See who gets shipped and why.
#190
Sep 2024
See how modern stats are reshaping baseball’s batting lineups.
#189
There are 59,507 outdoor basketball courts in the U.S.A. Explore satellite imagery of all of them.
#188
Jul 2024
We had an AI attempt to make a data-driven story like we do at The Pudding.
#187
We examined the social media and medical discourse on infant sleep training.
#186
Explore science fiction worlds from the last few decades – and what these fictional settings tell us about ourselves.
#185
Jun 2024
We analyzed 1,281 court documents of alleged child abuse in New Hampshire youth facilities. Here’s what they show.
#184
Explore how your city will feel in the future.
#183
Apr 2024
Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out.
#182
Mar 2024
The results from making a crowd-sourced flipbook animation.
#181
We examined what shapes “greatness” in music, according to Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums of all time.
#180
Feb 2024
We listened to 138 National Anthem performances so you don't have to. Here are the biggest divas.
#179
Oct 2023
Spotify tracks over 6,000 genres—everything from "rock" to "stomp-and-holler." Here's why that's cool.
#178
What does a happily ever after look like? We look at over 1,400 romance covers to find out what visuals are used.
#177
Sep 2023
Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight.
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#176
Aug 2023
A series of experimental clocks that connect data to time.
#175
We're tracking how the hottest year on Earth is affecting U.S. heat records.
#174
Jul 2023
This is how rare it is for a hit song to be credited to an all-women songwriting team.
