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Andrew Thompson

Andrew Thompson

Stories on The Pudding:

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  2. What’s New
  3. Collections
  4. All Essays
  5. How-to

What’s New

Women's Pockets are Inferior

Jan Diehm, Amber Thomas

Life After Death on Wikipedia

Russell Goldenberg

Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automation crisis

Jordan Dworkin, Ilia Blinderman

Greatest Hits

The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever

Matt Daniels, Hanah Anderson 2.1M views

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

Matt Daniels 1.7M views

How Music Taste Evolved

Matt Daniels 1.4M views

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

Colin Morris 1.0M views

The Cultural Borders of Songs

Matt Daniels 610k views

What City is the Microbrew Capital of the US?

Russell Goldenberg 390k views

An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton

Shirley Wu 190k views

The Words That Are “Most Hip Hop”

Matt Daniels, The Data Face 170k views

Hollywood's Gender Divide and its Effect on Films

Matt Daniels, Ilia Blinderman 140k views

Collections

Media Diversity

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

We mapped out the road to gender parity in the House of Representatives

Durand D’souza

Newspapers: A Black & White Issue

Matt Daniels, Amber Thomas

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

Basketball

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

The Most-Viewed NBA Plays in 2017-18

Russell Goldenberg

One-Hit Wonders in Sports

Russell Goldenberg, Jan Diehm

What is a Superteam in the NBA?

Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels

The Most Timeless NBA Plays

Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg

NBA Last Two Minute Report

Russell Goldenberg

Twenty Years of the NBA Redrafted

Russell Goldenberg

Using Historical NBA Data To Rank the Most Unlikely Comebacks

Matt Daniels

Explainers

Learn about complex topics with these accessible and visual explainers.

The Birthday Paradox Experiment

Russell Goldenberg

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?

Matt Daniels

Breaking It Down

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

The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels

An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton

Shirley Wu

How Robert Glasper sampled Miles Davis on “Ghetto Walkin”

Matt Daniels

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

Matt Daniels

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”

Matt Daniels, The Data Face

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

Matt Daniels

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

Matt Daniels

All Essays

Women's Pockets are Inferior

Jan Diehm, Amber Thomas

Life After Death on Wikipedia

Russell Goldenberg

Why the tech sector may not solve America’s looming automation crisis

Jordan Dworkin, Ilia Blinderman

What Airport Traffic Tells Us About the World's Megacities

Matt Daniels

Let’s Talk About Birth Control

Amber Thomas

We mapped out the road to gender parity in the House of Representatives

Durand D’souza

What 1.2 million parliamentary speeches can teach us about gender representation.

Durand D’souza

Men are from Chelsea, Women are from Park Slope

Jan Diehm

The Diversity of Makeup Shades

Jason Li, Amber Thomas, Divya Manian

The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly

Jared Wilbur

The Cultural Borders of Songs

Matt Daniels

The Most-Viewed NBA Plays in 2017-18

Russell Goldenberg

Are Hit Songs Becoming Less Musically Diverse?

Matt Daniels, Andrew Thompson

Baking the Most Average Chocolate Chip Cookie

Elle O’Brien, Amber Thomas

One-Hit Wonders in Sports

Russell Goldenberg, Jan Diehm

The Birthday Paradox Experiment

Russell Goldenberg

A Tale of Two Cities

Amber Thomas, Ilia Blinderman

The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels

Let's Learn About Waveforms

Josh Comeau

Limbo Lines: Dead Here, Alive There

Beatrice Jin

Mapping Gastronomic Borders in the US

Matt Daniels

Greetings from Mars

Amber Thomas

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

Charlie Smart

10 Things Everyone Hates About You

Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas

Seeing Earth from Outer Space

Matthew Conlen

What is a Superteam in the NBA?

Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels

Newspapers: A Black & White Issue

Matt Daniels, Amber Thomas

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

Ilia Blinderman

Free Willy and Flipper by the Numbers

Amber Thomas, Russell Goldenberg

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?

Russell Goldenberg

Why Does the US Lead the World in Incarceration?

Matt Daniels

How Russell Westbrook Can Average a Triple-Double

Russell Goldenberg

Do NBA Refs Favor the Home Team?

Oliver Roeder, Matt Daniels

The Geographic Divide of Oscars Films

Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman

NBA Last Two Minute Report

Russell Goldenberg

The Emergence Of Slang, Using Search Data

Matt Daniels

Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration

Matt Daniels

The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big

Russell Goldenberg, Dan Kopf

An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton

Shirley Wu

How News Media Covers Trump & Clinton

Russell Goldenberg

Twenty Years of the NBA Redrafted

Russell Goldenberg

How Robert Glasper sampled Miles Davis on “Ghetto Walkin”

Matt Daniels

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

Matt Daniels

How Music Taste Evolved

Matt Daniels

Using Historical NBA Data To Rank the Most Unlikely Comebacks

Matt Daniels

The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever

Matt Daniels, Hanah Anderson

Crowdsourcing the Definition of “Punk”

Matt Daniels

Hollywood's Gender Divide and its Effect on Films

Matt Daniels, Ilia Blinderman

The Most Succesful Labels in Hip Hop

Matt Daniels

The Most Timeless Songs of All-Time

Matt Daniels

The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

Matt Daniels

Outkast, in Charts

Matt Daniels

How-to

Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 and Flexbox

Amber Thomas

Easier scrollytelling with position sticky

Russell Goldenberg, Elaina Natario

The Pudding Awards

Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman, Amber Thomas, Matt Daniels

An Introduction to Scrollama.js

Russell Goldenberg

How to Make Dope Shit Part 2: Design

Ilia Blinderman

How to Make Dope Shit Part 1: Working with Data

Ilia Blinderman

How Many Users Resize Their Browser?

Russell Goldenberg

The Making of the Weighted Pivot Scatter Plot

Russell Goldenberg

Regional Smoothing in R

Ilia Blinderman

Responsive Scrollytelling Best Practices

Russell Goldenberg

How to Implement Scrollytelling with Six Different Libraries

Russell Goldenberg