The Pudding

<h2>What is The Pudding?</h2>The Pudding explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. By wielding original datasets, primary research, and interactivity, we try to thoroughly explore complex topics. 
 
Each story represents a few weeks of the author’s life, spent researching, analyzing, and coding a culturally rich topic. The output: an interactive experience that seeks to advance public discourse in a way that a traditional 20,000-word essay never could. 
 
Skeptical? The proof is in <a href="https://pudding.cool">The Pudding</a>. 
 <h2>Where does my $ go?</h2>
In brief: Every $7,000 we raise allows us to pay another freelance creator to bring their passion project to life. 
 
 A bit more: The Pudding's stories are a bit like the author's &quot;love letters&quot; to a topic. While our full-time team members have lots of love letters to write, we believe in helping other members of the data visualization community bring their passion projects to life. We provide creators with the support, resources, and platform they need to help make that a reality.   
 
Right now we can handle about one freelance creator's story every 1-2 months. But these creators have some amazing things to say and well...we want more. That's where you all come in. 
 
We believe in paying creators fairly for their work. Each one of our freelance creators is paid a starting rate of $7,000 per project, which is higher than the typical media outlet. So for every $7,000 raised on Patreon, we will hire another freelancer to make something great. 
 
Curious about what freelance contributions look like? Here are some of our latest: <a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/09/cdmx/"><img src="https://pudding.cool/common/assets/thumbnails/1280/2022_09_cdmx.jpg"></a> <h3><a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/09/cdmx/">Take an audio tour of Mexico City, seen through its street vendors</a></h3> <h3><a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/09/cdmx/"></a><a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/"><img src="https://pudding.cool/common/assets/thumbnails/1280/2022_08_censorship.jpg"></a> <a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/">We watched 100 episodes of The Big Bang Theory to figure out what the Chinese government censors, and why.</a></h3> 

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</a><h3><a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/02/plain/">Want to make your writing more accessible? Algorithms might not be the answer.</a></h3> 


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</a><a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/02/women-in-headlines/"><img src="https://pudding.cool/common/assets/thumbnails/1280/2022_02_women-in-headlines.jpg"></a> <h3><a href="https://pudding.cool/2022/02/women-in-headlines/">Analyzing more than 382,000 headlines to see how women are represented (or misrepresented) in the news</a></h3> <h2>Are there rewards?</h2>You asked and we delivered. We now offer rewards to our patrons!  For donating $2 or more per month, you get:  <ul><li>The Pudding stickers</li><li>Access to behind-the-scenes content detailing how we build stuff</li><li>An invitation to a private Slack group</li><li>Free attendance at our events (usually based in NYC). </li></ul> We've also got a $10 tier, as well as a $20 tier, each with their own rewards — check them out!

Free

Every friend of The Pudding receives:<ul><li>The Pudding stickers </li><li>Access to behind-the-scenes content detailing how we build stuff</li><li>Access to our Friends of The Pudding Slack</li><li>Free attendance to our events</li></ul>

Friend of The Pudding

Thanks for being a real good friend of The Pudding! As thanks for your support, you'll receive:<ul><li>The Pudding t-shirt</li><li>The Pudding stickers </li><li>Access to behind-the-scenes content detailing how we build stuff</li><li>Access to our Friends of The Pudding Slack</li><li>Free attendance to our events</li></ul>

A reaaal good friend of The Pudding

Damn, did we grow up together and stay close despite the many years that have passed? Super friends like you don't come around that often, so for a start, you'll be getting:<ul><li>The Pudding t-shirt</li><li>The Pudding mug</li><li>The Pudding stickers </li><li>Access to behind-the-scenes content detailing how we build stuff</li><li>Access to our Friends of The Pudding Slack</li><li>Free attendance to our events</li></ul>

SUPER friend of The Pudding

Are you part of a large organization and want some help from The Pudding? Great!We'll come speak to your team once per year*. We'll also be available to chat for a monthly one-on-one, and will workshop your viz ideas at one of our monthly work-in-progress meetings. You also get the perks from the other tiers (we gotchu, sticker fans):<ul><li>The Pudding t-shirt</li><li>The Pudding mug</li><li>The Pudding stickers </li><li>Access to behind-the-scenes content detailing how we build stuff</li><li>Access to our Friends of The Pudding Slack</li><li>Free attendance to our events </li></ul>*not including travel expenses; no travel necessary for teams in New York, Boston, or Seattle.

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