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Every time someone says cool in Community
Watch all 412 cools from Abed, and others.
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Oreos and the Art of Crossword Puzzle Construction
A chronicle of a controversial cookie and condiment crossword clue.
By Russell Goldenberg
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An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers
Stories, facts, and pixel art drawings of hundreds of masked wrestlers.
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The Worst, Highest-Paid NBA Player, Ever
Using advanced NBA stats to rank player performance against pay.
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The Rise of Hyphenated Last Names in Pro Sports
Since the 1990s names that arch over jerseys have become more common.
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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
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A People Map of the UK
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
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A People Map of the US
Where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident.
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Colorism in High Fashion
We looked at 19 years of covers to see Vogue represents women of all shades.
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30 Years of American Anxieties
What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what concerns us most.
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The Celebrity Billboard Project
Tracking the popularity of cultural figures in 2018
By Russell Goldenberg, Ilia Blinderman, Caitlyn Ralph
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Every time someone says cool in Community
Watch all 412 cools from Abed, and others.
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Film or Digital?
Breaking down Hollywood's choice of shooting medium
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Listen to Her: Gender on This American Life
The story behind the gender divide on This American Life
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She Giggles, He Gallops
Analyzing gender tropes in film with screen direction from 2,000 scripts
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‘The Office’ Dialogue in Five Charts
A breakdown of how every character contributed to the show
By Caitlyn Ralph
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The Historical Cost of Light
How difficult was it to obtain artificial light before the 19th century? Well...
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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
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How candidate diversity impacts color diversity
We examined 271 presidential designs from 1968–2020.
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The Kim Foxx Effect
Measuring the data behind a promise to transform prosecution.
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The Language of Congress
What topics do members of Congress tweet about most frequently?
By Charlie Smart
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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
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Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
Do you recognize songs from history more than people your age?
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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
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You Know Karen
We found names that could be “other Karens,” "male Karens," and “future Karens.”
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Best Year in Music
A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era
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The Birthday Paradox Experiment
Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. Because math.
By Russell Goldenberg
Greatest Hits
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Rappers, Sorted by the Size of their Vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
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The World through the Eyes of the US
The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900
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Population Mountains
This is a story about how to perceive the population size of cities.
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Human Terrain: Population in 3D
Visualizing the World’s Population as a Terrain
By Matt Daniels -
The Birthday Paradox Experiment
Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. Because math.
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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
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How Music Taste Evolved
Top 5 songs from '58-'16, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good
By Matt Daniels
How-To
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How to Make Dope Shit Part 3: Storytelling
How to think about storytelling in your data-driven visual essay.
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Continue, Pivot, or Put It Down
The Pudding's process to go from idea to data story
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The Courage (and Disappointment) of Pitching a Visual Essay
How I successfully pitched my first visual essay
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Making Data Viz Without SVG Using D3 and Flexbox
Bye bye tricky SVG alignments. Hello SVG-free data viz!
By Amber Thomas