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Death in Mass., by the numbers - The Boston Globe
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Reflecting more than 1 million deaths in Massachusetts since 1999, the data reveals troubling differences among groups: income and race make a difference.
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The Pudding We worked with on their recent investigation into how inequality manifests in death -- check out our contribution here, where we visualize 20 years of data on death in Massachusetts 152d
Making Internet Things, Part 3: Storytelling
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This is the third installment of a multi-part series designed to help you familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.
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The Pudding Three years ago we started a how-to series aimed at helping people create data-driven, visual stories. And TODAY, we're finally giving you the last installment! Check out Part 3 of How to Make Dope Shit: Storytelling. 179d
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
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Female characters appear in superhero comics less often than males — but when they are included, how are they depicted?
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The Pudding analyzed how male and female characters are depicted in comic books (). We helped out a bit on story and development 9/ 220d
The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
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An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
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The Pudding 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 227d
Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
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Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
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The Pudding New project: we're tracking generational gaps in music. 9% of gen z recognizes "With Arms Wide Open" by Creed, while only a third of millennials can identify "Return to Sender" by Elvis. Help us out by taking the quiz here: 303d
The Big Data of Big Hair
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We investigated a dataset of more than 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930–2013 to find out when big hair was at its height.
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The Pudding New video-based project with : We looked at a dataset of over 30,000 high school yearbook photos from 1930–2013 to identify hairstyle trends & find when big hair was at its height. Watch the intro below and see the full project at . 466d
The Kim Foxx Effect
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Measuring the data behind a promise to transform prosecution
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The Pudding Data on crime and imprisonment is plentiful, but the prosecutor's office is a black box. Last fall, the State's Attorney in Chicago released 6 years of data. We asked: what is the impact of a prosecutor who runs on reform. w/ 493d
Ye Olde Mad-Lib Pub Crawl Generator
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We gathered pub names from Pubs Galore, the largest crowdsourced list of pubs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and plotted the shortest route between pubs of the same name.
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The Pudding NEW PROJECT ALERT! We found all the pubs in the UK with the same name and mapped the shortest route between them for some epic pub crawls. 339 Red Lions = 339 pints, so bottoms up! 🍻 Generate your own pub crawl here: 508d
5,000 Top-Selling Book Covers, Arranged by Visual Similarity
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An interactive map of 11 years of book covers, organized by machine learning.
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The Pudding 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 -> 606d
Best Year in Music
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A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era.
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The Pudding In an updated project, visualized 70 years of Billboard Top 5 Hits, playing the #1 song for as long as it charted. LINK -> 633d
A People Map of the UK
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Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
A People Map of the US
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Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
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The Pudding New Project: an interactive people map of the USA 🇺🇸, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia'ed resident. Explore the story here: 641d
How many high school stars make it in the NBA?
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Every year the top high school basketball recruits get hyped up. How often do they pan out?
Colorism in High Fashion
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We looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue represents women of different shades.
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The Pudding NEW PROJECT ALERT 📸👩🏿👩🏾👩🏽👩🏼👩🏻 programmatically looked at 19 years of covers to find how Vogue magazine represents women of all shades. Spoiler: They could do better. 676d
The Gyllenhaal Experiment
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The many ways to misspell the hardest names in pop culture.
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The Pudding Attempts to spell Zach Galifianakis's last name has a 13% success rate so far. Contribute to our dataset and see some pretty charts. 734d
Population Mountains
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The shape of cities, using population data for every 1,000 square meters.
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The Pudding (1/15) Today examines the notion of “population mountains.” Read the full article in the link below, and you can also follow along with Matt’s observations in this tweet thread. 816d
30 Years of American Anxieties
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What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what—and who—concerns us most.
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The Pudding What, and who, has worried Americans throughout the past 30 years? We've visualized 30 years of advice column questions to find out! 837d
Human Terrain
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Visualizing the World’s Population, in 3D
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The Pudding Last week we released an interactive population map called Human Terrain. . We just also published an in-depth tutorial on how created it here: 852d
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The Pudding In a new project and forthcoming series, will be exploring population changes with an interactive experience that visualizes the world's largest cities. 857d
3D mapping global population density: How I built it
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By: Matt Daniels
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The Pudding Last week we released an interactive population map called Human Terrain. . We just also published an in-depth tutorial on how created it here: 852d
The Celebrity Billboard Project
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Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018.
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The Pudding 🌟 New Project 🌟 The media spotlight shifts regularly, highlighting some celebrities for a brief moment in time while illuminating others for longer stretches. We visualized this shift using daily traffic data 901d