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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A Brief History of the Past 100 Years
An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines
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30 Years of American Anxieties
What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.
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The Celebrity Billboard Project
Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018
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Tech Jobs may not Solve America’s Looming Automation Crisis
Tech retraining programs are becoming more popular. They may not be a solution.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Using data to write love letters to the cities we call home
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How to Make Dope Shit Part 2: Design
Some pointers on learning to design data-driven visual essays.
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How to Make Dope Shit Part 1: Working with Data
Familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.
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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.
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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
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Hollywood's Gender Divide and its Effect on Films
The writers, directors, and producers who make films that fail the Bechdel test