Amber Thomas | The Pudding

Amber Thomas, Ilia Blinderman

A Tale of Two Cities

The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

Collections

Explainers

Learn about complex topics with these accessible and visual explainers.

The Birthday Paradox Experiment

Let's Learn About Waveforms

Josh Comeau

Greetings from Mars

Amber Thomas

Seeing Earth from Outer Space

Matthew Conlen

Why Does the US Lead the World in Incarceration?

Breaking It Down

Take a deep-dive into what makes pop-culture and media awesome.

The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton

Shirely Wu

How Robert Glasper sampled Miles Davis on “Ghetto Walkin”

The 2,452 Wikipedia Pages on which Miles Davis is Mentioned

Matt Daniels, The Data Face

Language

How deconstructing language reveals new perspectives on familiar topics.

The Differences in How CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Cover the News

Charlie Smart

The Words That Are “Most Hip Hop”

She Giggles, He Gallops

Julia Silge, Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris

The Emergence Of Slang, Using Search Data

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

Basketball

Hot takes and cool viz that will light the fire for endless NBA debates.

What is a Superteam in the NBA?

Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg

The Most Timeless NBA Plays

NBA Last Two Minute Report

Twenty Years of the NBA Redrafted

Using Historical NBA Data To Rank the Most Unlikely Comebacks

Matt Daniels, Amber Thomas

Media Diversity

Explore gender and racial diversity in a number of domains, from comic books to newsrooms.

Newspapers: A Black & White Issue

Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life

Ash Ngu

Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters

Amanda Shendruk

The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever

Matt Daniels, Hanah Anderson

All Essays

The Birthday Paradox Experiment

Amber Thomas, Ilia Blinderman

A Tale of Two Cities

The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

Let's Learn About Waveforms

Josh Comeau

Limbo Lines: Dead Here, Alive There

Beatrice Jin

Mapping Gastronomic Borders in the US

Greetings from Mars

Amber Thomas

The Differences in How CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Cover the News

Charlie Smart

The Cultural Borders of Songs

Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas

10 Things Everyone Hates About You

Seeing Earth from Outer Space

Matthew Conlen

What is a Superteam in the NBA?

Matt Daniels, Amber Thomas

Newspapers: A Black & White Issue

The Words That Are “Most Hip Hop”

Matt Daniels, The Data Face

Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life

Ash Ngu

How far is too far? An analysis of driving times to abortion clinics in the US.

Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas, Caitlyn Ralph

She Giggles, He Gallops

Julia Silge, Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas

‘The Office’ Dialogue in Five Charts

Caitlyn Ralph

Table for One

Henrik Lindberg, Amber Thomas

Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters

Amanda Shendruk

Why the Republican Party Wins When Robots Take Your Job

Amber Thomas, Russell Goldenberg

Free Willy and Flipper by the Numbers

Analyzing Plot Trends for Every Top-Grossing Film from the Past 50 Years

Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg

Bias, She Wrote

Rosie Cima

The Timing of Baby Making

Amber Thomas

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris

The Most Timeless NBA Plays

Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg

What City is the Microbrew Capital of the US?

Why Does the US Lead the World in Incarceration?

How Russell Westbrook Can Average a Triple-Double

Oliver Roeder, Matt Daniels

Do NBA Refs Favor the Home Team?

The Geographic Divide of Oscars Films

Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman

NBA Last Two Minute Report

The Emergence Of Slang, Using Search Data

Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration

Russell Goldenberg, Dan Kopf

The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big

An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton

Shirely Wu

How News Media Covers Trump & Clinton

Twenty Years of the NBA Redrafted

How Robert Glasper sampled Miles Davis on “Ghetto Walkin”

The 2,452 Wikipedia Pages on which Miles Davis is Mentioned

How Music Taste Evolved

Using Historical NBA Data To Rank the Most Unlikely Comebacks

Matt Daniels, Hanah Anderson

The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever

Crowdsourcing the Definition of “Punk”

Matt Daniels, Ilia Blinderman

Hollywood's Gender Divide and its Effect on Films

The Most Succesful Labels in Hip Hop

The Most Timeless Songs of All-Time

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

Outkast, in Charts

Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman, Amber Thomas, Matt Daniels

How-to

The Pudding Awards

An Introduction to Scrollama.js

How to Make Dope Shit Part 2: Design

How to Make Dope Shit Part 1: Working with Data

How Many Users Resize Their Browser?

The Making of the Weighted Pivot Scatter Plot

Regional Smoothing in R

Responsive Scrollytelling Best Practices

How to Implement Scrollytelling with Six Different Libraries