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An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers
Stories, facts, and pixel art drawings of hundreds of masked wrestlers.
By Gwendal Uguen, Russell Goldenberg, Jan Diehm -
The Worst, Highest-Paid NBA Player, Ever
Using advanced NBA stats to rank player performance against pay.
By Matt Daniels -
The Rise of Hyphenated Last Names in Pro Sports
Since the 1990s names that arch over jerseys have become more common.
By Jan Diehm -
How Many High School Stars Make It in the NBA?
Every year the top high school basketball recruits get hyped up—do they pan out?
By Amber Thomas, Russell Goldenberg -
The Winningest Cities in North American Sports
What makes a titletown in sports?
By Sam Vickars -
A Visual History of Every Air Jordan
Watch as the design of the iconic Air Jordan morphs over the last 33 editions.
By Jan Diehm -
The Most-Viewed NBA Plays in 2017-18
Warning: this video contains a high dosage of LeBron footage.
By Russell Goldenberg -
How Russell Westbrook Can Average a Triple-Double
As of March 10, Russell Westbrook is averaging a triple-double.
By Russell Goldenberg -
Do NBA Refs Favor the Home Team?
Analyzing reviewed calls to rank NBA teams by favorable home court officiating
By Oliver Roeder, Matt Daniels -
NBA Last Two Minute Report
A review of the NBA officiating from the Last Two Minute Report
By Russell Goldenberg -
Twenty Years of the NBA Redrafted
Using career stats to prove the best/worst NBA draft picks, ever
By Russell Goldenberg -
Ranking the Most Unlikely NBA Comebacks
Identify the most statistically unlikely comebacks this season
By Matt Daniels
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A People Map of the UK
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
By Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels -
A People Map of the US
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
By Russell Goldenberg, Matt Daniels -
Colorism in High Fashion
We looked at 19 years of covers to see Vogue represents women of all shades.
By Malaika Handa, Amber Thomas, Jan Diehm -
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 -
Life After Death on Wikipedia
What pageviews tell us about how famous people are remembered after they die
By Russell Goldenberg -
What Airport Traffic Tells Us About the World's Megacities
Kinshasa, DR Congo, a city of 13 million has 13 departing flights per day.
By Matt Daniels -
Let’s Talk About Birth Control
No TMI here, just 20,759 people describing their experiences with contraception.
By Amber Thomas -
The Diversity of Makeup Shades
Fenty Beauty is a champion for makeup inclusivity. How do other brands compare?
By Jason Li, Amber Thomas, Divya Manian -
Mapping Gastronomic Borders in the US
How US culture dictates geographic restaurant patterns
By Matt Daniels -
What City is the Microbrew Capital of the US?
Using beer review data to rank the best cities in the country
By Russell Goldenberg -
The Emergence Of Slang, Using Search Data
Emerging slang, identified by searches for words’ definitions
By Matt Daniels
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Every time someone says cool in Community
Watch all 412 cools from Abed, and others.
By Russell Goldenberg -
Film or Digital?
Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium
By Damar Aji Pramudita -
Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life
The story behind the gender divide on This American Life
By Ash Ngu -
She Giggles, He Gallops
Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts
By Julia Silge, Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas -
‘The Office’ Dialogue in Five Charts
A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show
By Caitlyn Ralph -
Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
How are female characters in superhero comics depicted?
By Amanda Shendruk -
Plot Trends for Top-Grossing Film from the Past 50 Years
This is a story about how film plots mirror (or shape) historical events.
By Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg -
Bias, She Wrote
How much progress has American literature made towards gender equality?
By Rosie Cima -
The Geographic Divide of Oscars Films
Mapping the popularity of Oscar-nominated films in 2017
By Matt Daniels, Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman -
An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton
From the moment I sat down to listen the whole way through, I was done for...
By Shirley Wu -
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
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The Historical Cost of Light
How difficult was it to obtain artificial light before the 19th century? Well...
By Ilia Blinderman, Jan Diehm -
How officer complaints are investigated
A case study of Philadelphia police
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How rigid is the middle class in the US, really?
Exploring the economic mobility of 11,172 middle class families over 50 years
By Alice Feng, Amber Thomas -
How candidate diversity impacts color diversity
We examined 271 presidential designs from 1968–2020.
By Jan Diehm -
The Kim Foxx Effect
Measuring the data behind a promise to transform prosecution.
By Matt Daniels -
The Language of Congress
What topics do members of Congress tweet about most frequently?
By Charlie Smart -
Women's Issues Within Political Party Platforms
How often do women’s issues appear in party platform documents over time?
By Russell Goldenberg, Jan Diehm -
The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students
What we learned about sexualization from analyzing 481 high school dress codes
By Amber Thomas -
The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900
By Russell Goldenberg -
Population Mountains
This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.
By Matt Daniels -
Human Terrain: Population in 3D
Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain
By Matt Daniels -
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 -
The Road to Gender Parity in the House of Representatives
Exploring 100 years of women in politics through data and machine learning
By Durand D’souza -
Gender Representation in Parliamentary Speeches
Exploring 100 years of women in parliament through data and machine learning
By Durand D’souza -
Men are from Chelsea, Women are from Park Slope
How “gayborhoods” in 15 major American cities are divided by gender
By Jan Diehm -
Limbo Lines: Dead Here, Alive There
Brain death’s role in the uncertainties of death
By Beatrice Jin -
How CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Cover the News
The story you get depends on the channel you watch
By Charlie Smart -
An Analysis of Driving Times to Abortion Clinics in the US
Mapping the cities and places with the worst access
By Russell Goldenberg, Amber Thomas, Caitlyn Ralph -
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 -
The Timing of Baby Making
Births, broken down by geography and month
By Amber Thomas -
Why Does the US Lead the World in Incarceration?
How we got here is one of the most debated questions in policy.
By Matt Daniels -
Mapping Slavery Against US Incarceration
How do historic incarceration rates differ between slave and non-slave states?
By Matt Daniels -
How News Media Covers Trump & Clinton
Analyzing 12,147 images of Trump and Clinton
By Russell Goldenberg
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The Cultural Borders of Songs
We mapped last month’s #1 songs in 3,000 places.
By Matt Daniels -
Why are K-pop groups so big?
We tracked group sizes and member roles over modern K-pop’s 30-year history.
By Isabella Chua, Elizabeth de Luna -
A Data-Led Theory to Generationally Divide Dance Floors
Some age groups are more likely to recognize certain songs than others
By Matt Daniels, Liana Sposto -
Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
By Matt Daniels -
Just How Does Kidz Bop Censor Songs?
We looked at 19 years of albums to find out what gets the black bar.
By Jan Diehm, Sara Stoudt, Amber Thomas -
Are Men Singing Higher in Pop Music?
Men’s voices in pop music seem really high. When was vocal register the highest?
By Matt Daniels -
Best Year in Music
A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era
By Matt Daniels -
How Often Names are in Songs
Every song seems to be written about "Baby". Where does your name stack up?
By Amber Thomas -
Who is the Biggest Pop Star?
Today, there's no single way to measure popularity in music.
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Rappers, Sorted by the Size of their Vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
By Matt Daniels -
The Most Emo Lyrics: Emo Rap vs. Dashboard Confessional
Who has more emotionally vulnerable lyrics, emo-rap or Dashboard Confessional?
By Matt Daniels -
The Good, the Rad, and the Gnarly
An exploration into the music of skateboarding
By Jared Wilbur -
Are Hit Songs Becoming Less Musically Diverse?
Today’s hit artists are take fewer risks and create a narrower range of sounds
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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
By Colin Morris -
The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big
What three years and 75,000 shows tell us about the chance of success
By Russell Goldenberg, Dan Kopf -
How Robert Glasper Sampled Miles Davis on “Ghetto Walkin”
An interactive story about the art of sampling
By Matt Daniels -
The 2,452 Wikipedia Pages on which Miles Davis is Mentioned
25 years after his death, you can find Davis' fingerprints on many other ideas.
By Matt Daniels -
How Music Taste Evolved
Top 5 songs from '58-'16, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good
By Matt Daniels -
Crowdsourcing the Definition of “Punk”
Looking at playlists to learn how parts of culture perceive genres
By Matt Daniels -
The Most Succesful Labels in Hip Hop
Hip hop record labels, sorted by their artists' chart performance on Billboard
By Matt Daniels -
The Most Timeless Songs of All-Time
Using Spotify to measure the popularity of older music
By Matt Daniels -
Outkast, in Charts
A look at Outkast's history through the lens of data
By Matt Daniels
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We created a speaker rider. Journalism didn’t have one.
Everyone needs to work together to make events more inclusive.
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How to Make Dope Shit Part 3: Storytelling
How to think about storytelling in your data-driven visual essay.
By Ilia Blinderman -
Continue, Pivot, or Put It Down
The Pudding's process to go from idea to data story
By Amber Thomas -
The Courage (and Disappointment) of Pitching a Visual Essay
How I successfully pitched my first visual essay
By Erin Davis -
Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 and Flexbox
Bye bye tricky SVG alignments. Hello SVG-free data viz!
By Amber Thomas -
An Introduction to Scrollama.js
The what, why, and how to use scrollama.js for your next scrollytelling story
By Russell Goldenberg -
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 -
How Many Users Resize Their Browser?
A look at actual data and how to deal with it
By Russell Goldenberg -
The Making of the Weighted Pivot Scatter Plot
How (and why) the interactive chart was born
By Russell Goldenberg -
Regional Smoothing in R
A guide to smoothing geospatial data in R
By Ilia Blinderman -
Responsive Scrollytelling Best Practices
How to plan or adapt a scrollytelling story for mobile.
By Russell Goldenberg -
How to Implement Scrollytelling with Six Different Libraries
How to tackle a simple scroll-driven chart using six different libraries
By Russell Goldenberg