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 PuddingWe worked with @GlobeSpotlight 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
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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 PuddingThree 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.
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An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender.
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The PuddingCurl 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…pic.twitter.com/3evlTo6JMV
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Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
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The PuddingNew 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: pudding.cool/2020/04/music-…pic.twitter.com/IHtbwP83bv
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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 PuddingNew video-based project with @andronovhopf: 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 pudding.cool/2019/11/big-ha…. pic.twitter.com/om4mE1EVIb
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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 PuddingNEW 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: pudding.cool/2019/10/pubs/pic.twitter.com/QaHirlYxc3
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An interactive map of 11 years of book covers, organized by machine learning.
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The PuddingNew 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…pic.twitter.com/gDYUxQOXP7
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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 @Wikipedia traffic data
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