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Jan Diehm

Jan Diehmis a journalist-engineer at The Pudding. She appreciates the finer things in life: LEGO, southern delicacies like pimento cheese and fried green tomatoes, and Britney Spears. You can follow her on the socials or check out her website. She has worked on 32 stories to date. Explore them all below.

Get in touch: jan@pudding.cool

Stories

#208

Jul 2025

kids book animals

How and why do we gender animals in stories?
#203

Apr 2025

wine animals

We try to predict the price and quality of a bottle of wine based on the animal on the label.
#195

Oct 2024

nba jersey colors

We took a look at the data behind the increasingly vibrant (and maybe a little confusing) landscape of NBA jerseys.
#194

Oct 2024

abortion mazes

A maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion policies.
#191

Oct 2024

fanfic ships

We looked at a decade of fanfic couples. See who gets shipped and why.
#180

Feb 2024

national anthem divas

We listened to 138 National Anthem performances so you don't have to. Here are the biggest divas.
#178

Oct 2023

romance novel covers

What does a happily ever after look like? We look at over 1,400 romance covers to find out what visuals are used.
#170

May 2023

country radio diversity

Country music is powered by women like Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris, but even they are barely played back-to-back.
#161

Nov 2022

upward mobility

How does where you grow up impact your economic opportunity? Our author returns to his roots.
#160

Oct 2022

wnba kicks

Watch women's hoops signature sneakers morph from Swoopes to Stewie.
#141

Oct 2021

lenna image

We scraped the web to track one of the internet’s oldest images — one that lives on without the subject’s consent.
#137

Jun 2021

same-gender lyrics

A story about hearing yourself in same-gender pop lyrics for the first time and tracking it with data ever since.
#131

Mar 2021

ai heartbreak

What do you do when your friends are sick of hearing about your breakup? Use a supercomputer to find a happier ending.
#126

Dec 2020

cost of lighting

Candles and LEDs don’t pay for themselves. We’ll demonstrate just exactly how much work goes into warding off the dark.
#124

Nov 2020

who's in the crossword

Crosswords are known for being too old, too white, and too male. We backed that up with data.
#121

Oct 2020

photo history quiz

Take the quiz: Can you identify when these photos were taken? It may not be as easy as it sounds.
#118

Aug 2020

candidate colors

We examined 271 presidential candidate branding designs from 1968–2020. Here’s who goes beyond the red, WHITE, and blue.
#114

Jun 2020

you know karen

Using baby name data, we found the names that could be at risk of becomming future "Karens" in 10, 20, and 30 years.
#112

May 2020

masked wrestlers

Do you smell what we’re cooking? It’s stories, facts, and pixel art drawings of over 200 masked wrestlers.
#109

Apr 2020

kidz bop censorship

When it comes to sanitizing lyrics, where does Kidz Bop draw the line? (This was pre-WAP though; now all bets are off.)
#100

Nov 2019

big hair

From beehives, to afros, to bumpits: we looked at 30,000 yearbook photos to officially crown the "Big Hair Era."
#99

Oct 2019

laughing online

Do you "lol?" Or "haha?’ Or "hehe?" We charted the usage, evolution, and perception of digital laughter.
#96

Oct 2019

pub crawl generator

We’ve devised pub crawl routes between UK watering holes of the same name. One Red Lion down, 338 to go. Cheers!
#94

Sep 2019

things millenials kill

Headlines say millennials killed napkins, marriage, and Applebees. We say, "you’re welcome." What’s next for this group?
#84

May 2019

hyphenated names

Since the 1950s, hyphenated last names in pro-sports have been on the rise. The WNBA leads the way, as it so often does.
#82

Apr 2019

colorism in fashion

We looked at 19 years of covers to see if Vogue represents women of all shades. You can guess how this went.
#79

Mar 2019

women's politics

We looked at every political party platform between 1840 and 2016 to find how often women’s issues appeared in the text.
#71

Dec 2018

headline history

We created a brief history of the past 100 years from New York Times headlines. And yes, there are word clouds.
#64

Sep 2018

morphing air jordans

Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs from its the first release in 1985 to the present.
#60

Aug 2018

women's pockets

We went there. A data investigation into the travesty that is women’s pockets.
#53

Jun 2018

gayborhoods

We mapped how "gayborhoods" are divided by gender. It’s true: men are from Chelsea, women are from Park Slope.
#47

Apr 2018

sports one-hit wonders

Which athletes qualify as one-hit wonders? We charted the greatest single-season anomalies in the last 30 years.