Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights.

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Thank you, Sebastian!

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:

🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

“Look at Mr. Frog! He’s so grumpy.”

Wait, why are so many frogs boys? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social explores how we gender animals in kids’ stories—and why it matters.

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New project! What happens when strangers have to talk for 30 minutes? @alv9n.com's latest project tracks how their moods change as the conversation progresses.

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Two years ago I made this interactive story about the loneliness epidemic: pudding.cool/2023/09/invi...

The brilliant @matthew-daniels.bsky.social turned it into a video. His touch on this piece is really quite incredible.

YouTube video by The Pudding The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With

New video on YouTube (an animated version of one of @alv9n.com's greatest hits): The Loneliness Epidemic, in Data: Who Americans Spend Time With

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New project: From stereotypes to breakthroughs, Hollywood's history with Asian and Asian American characters is complicated.

This AAPI Heritage Month, dive into the data that reveals whether that's changed: pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi...

Asian Misrepresentation How accurately are Asian Americans cast in Hollywood?

"From 2007 to 2022, the percentage of Asian characters with speaking roles increased from 3.4% to 15.9%, the largest increase among any racial group during that time" pudding.cool/2025/05/aapi... via @puddingviz.bsky.social

Are you more likely to die on your birthday? Yes. We’ll run a study to show you how, and why.

Are you more likely to die on your birthday?

Come for the math, stay for the existential crisis.

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The Pour-igin of Species We used ChatGPT Vision to identify animals on close to 1,500 wine labels to see if we could predict the price and quality of a bottle based on the animal on the label.

I don't think I've ever read an article more precision engineered to my interests (as a data journalist and owner of a chicken wine T-shirt)

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Have you ever bought a bottle of wine based on the label alone? Yeah, us too.

Turns out, if a wine has an animal on the label that can help you predict price and quality. We looked at thousands of labels to help you find the best deals.

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What if we considered samples & interpolations as connections in sonic family trees?

My project out today @puddingviz.bsky.social w/ @jaredwhalen.com @matthew-daniels.bsky.social lets you see and hear the genealogy of our popular music.

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New project (with 🔊🎵!) : @luriethereal.bsky.social explores legacies of music dna, such as a 2pac bassline being a sample of sample: two generations of music created by a James Brown riff.

A Visual History of Rickrolling Millions of comments, posts, and links, charted.

def this one pudding.cool/2021/07/rick...

An Illustrated Guide to Masked Wrestlers Stories, facts, and pixel art drawings of hundreds of masked wrestlers.

I love it when websites are cool. Bring back cool websites. Thank you @puddingviz.bsky.social. 🤼

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