Bio
Ilia Blinderman is a Journalist-Engineer at The Pudding. He was first an academic, then a writer, and finally, joined those two occupations in holy union through data-driven storytelling.
Stories
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Where International Communities Cluster
America has often been called a nation of immigrants. Here's where they settled.
By Ilia Blinderman, Isabel Carter -
A Chronicle of the Anti-vaccination Movement
How one unethical study on vaccines caused irreparable harm.
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How Much Data Lies Behind the Paper You're Reading?
Want to access the raw data behind an academic paper? Good luck.
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30 Years of American Anxieties
What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.
By Ilia Blinderman, Caitlyn Ralph -
The Celebrity Billboard Project
Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018
By Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman, Caitlyn Ralph -
Tech Jobs may not Solve America’s Looming Automation Crisis
Tech retraining programs are becoming more popular. They may not be a solution.
By Jordan Dworkin, Ilia Blinderman -
How to Make Dope Shit Part 2: Design
Some pointers on learning to design data-driven visual essays.
By Ilia Blinderman -
How to Make Dope Shit Part 1: Working with Data
Familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.
By Ilia Blinderman -
Why the Republican Party Wins When Robots Take Your Job
Job automation is only a matter of time. Here's why the right will benefit.
By Ilia Blinderman -
Regional Smoothing in R
A guide to smoothing geospatial data in R
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The Geographic Divide of Oscars Films
Mapping the popularity of Oscar-nominated films in 2017
By Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman -
Hollywood's Gender Divide and its Effect on Films
The writers, directors, and producers who make films that fail the Bechdel test
By Matt Daniels, Ilia Blinderman
