New project! We built an A.I. bot that mercilessly judges your taste in music on Spotify. See how your data stacks up against millions of indicators of objectively good music, including Pitchfork reviews and record store recommendations
The Pudding
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The Pudding
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The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. Email: [email protected] Support: patreon.com/thepudding
- New Project: an interactive people map of the USA 🇺🇸, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia'ed resident. Explore the story here: pudding.cool/2019/05/people…
00:00 - Curl up with a good book and you're likely to read about women with "soft lips" and men with "broad shoulders." Women often are reduced to their sexuality—men to their strength. We examined 2K books to see how authors describe men's/women's physical traits pudding.cool/2020/07/gender…
00:00 - In a new project and forthcoming series, @matthew_daniels will be exploring population changes with an interactive experience that visualizes the world's largest cities. pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3…
00:00 - NEW PROJECT ALERT 📸👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽👩🏼👩🏻@malicodes programmatically looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue magazine represents women of all shades. Spoiler: They could do better. pudding.cool/2019/04/vogue/
00:00 - New project! What makes writing more readable and how do you measure it? See how both humans and algorithms approach this question in our latest project from @BeccaMonteleone & @jamieabrew pudding.cool/2022/02/plain/ #PlainLanguage #dataviz
00:00 - We’ve been asked by a few followers if we’re going to do any coronavirus viz. We are not currently working on anything. 1/X
- New essay: this project looks at the most popular song in your location from March 2021 and helps you understand your geography's pop music bubble.
- New project! 📕📚 We sorted 5,000 book covers by visual similarity using machine learning and created an interactive map. Find book cover clusters of faces, beaches, super-bold type, and the many visual motifs that pervade best-seller lists. LINK -> pudding.cool/2019/07/book-c…
00:00 - 🧪 new experiment! how random are you? come for the quiz to find out, and stay for the discussion about replication and methods 🤓 pudding.cool/2022/04/random/
00:00 - One of our staff's first projects, Rappers sorted by the Size of Their Vocabulary, is updated for the first time in 5 years: 75 new artists added, including Lil Uzi Vert, Brockhampton, Death Grips, Travis Scott, Migos, and more... pudding.cool/projects/vocab…
- 1) Gen Z is far more likely to recognize "Wannabe" than "No Scrubs." 2) Will Smith is falling into obscurity. These are two realizations from a new project about how future generations will recognize '90s music. pudding.cool/2020/07/song-d…
- New project! We worked with @PamelaMishkin on a personal “choose your own adventure” essay that blurs and redraws the lines between what’s real and what’s GPT-3 generated in search of a “better” ending. pudding.cool/2021/03/love-a…
00:00 - New Essay! ✨👖 You aren't imagining it. After measuring the pockets from 20 brands of blue jeans, we've found that, on average, women's pockets are A LOT smaller than men's. Dive into the data and the repercussions of pocket inequality: pudding.cool/2018/08/pocket…
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