The Pudding

The Pudding will be at FW:B Fest 2026! Come see us present a new visual essay LIVE and IN PERSON! 🗓️ WHEN: Friday July 31st to August 2nd, 2026 🗺️ WHERE: Idyllwild Arts, Coachella Valley 💡 WHAT: The fifth edition of the industry-defining festival. Part music festival, part emerging tech conference, 100pc secret third thing. A select group of 1000 artists, founders, and forecasters coming together to explore what comes next. MORE INFO + TIX AT THE LINK IN BIO

Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school this visual essay is for you. Check it out at the link in bio. #thepudding #dataviz #simile #bookstagram

Many women who’ve done IVF call themselves warriors. @lamthuyvo is one of them. Follow her interactive journey through infertility, told from two perspectives: parent & child. Full interactive experience at the LINK IN BIO. Illustrations by @ohrosewong . #ivf #infertility #datajournalism #datastorytelling

The world feels quite precarious right now—and sometimes we forget what it feels like to pursue happiness. So we dug into a study that asked more than 10,000 people to share their joy. From personal growth to friends and family, here’s our happiness mapped. Check out the full map at the LINK IN BIO! #happiness #joy #map #dataviz #datajournalism

I recently launched my first visual essay with @the.pudding . It brings together so many of my recent interests — research, coding, design, and sewing — on a topic that won’t leave me alone: the chaos of women’s clothing sizes. For years, it really bothered me that women were expected to learn each clothing brand’s unique sizing system through a rough combination of dressing room meltdowns and trial-and-error. So I gave up and learned how to sew. Learning how to make my own clothes completely recontextualized everything I’d known about sizes and shopping. Finally I had raw measurements to truly understand why my clothes didn’t fit right. And that it wasn’t my fault. I’m sharing what I’ve learned after diving into data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and ASTM International sizing guidelines to offer a better understanding of which sizes the typical median American actually wears. From there we chart the body measurements found within the size charts of popular clothing brands and compare those figures to real-world bodies. The results, as many have likely experienced first-hand, highlight a sizing system that is largely outdated and ill-equipped to serve even the average American woman. LINK IN BIO to see the full story! #sewing #memade #fashion #sizing #dataviz

Few life experiences feel as universal, across generations, as the pains and frustrations of trying to find clothes that fit. Sizes vary wildly from store to store. Even within a single apparel company, no one size is consistent. There are no regulations or universal sizing standards. Instead each brand is incentivized to make up its own. When size guides change — and they’re always changing — brands are not obligated to disclose updates. The only consistent feature is that the industry at large continues to cling onto the same underlying sizing system that’s been broken for decades. And it’s only gotten worse. @diy__wardrobe dives into the inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women. Explore the full interactive version at the LINK IN BIO. #dataviz #fashion #sizing #womenswear #clothing

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the LINK IN BIO. #thepudding #puddingcup #dataviz #data #datajournalism #datastorytelling #charts #graphs #journalism #interactive #contest #winners

There’s a secret language running underneath Hamilton. We visualized every motif in Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Mis to show how tiny musical ideas can build entire emotional worlds. Read the full story and hear all the motifs at the LINK IN BIO 🎶 #thepudding #dataviz #datavisualization #datajournalism #datastorytelling #data #charts #graphs #hamilton #wicked #lesmis #music #motifs #musicals

The Pudding Cup is back for 2025! We want to see your best non-commercial visual and data-driven projects from the last year. Entries are free! 🗓️ Deadline: Friday, December 5, 2025 📢 Winners announced: the week of December 9, 2025 💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500 LINK IN BIO! #thepudding #puddingcup #data #dataviz #datavisual #datajournailsm #datastorytelling #vidualjournalism #awards #contest

How much does Congress talk about democracy? How often do they worry that democracy is eroding? Our latest project analyzes every congressional speech in the last 145 years. See the full interactive version at the LINK IN BIO. #thepudding #dataviz #datavisualization #datajournalism #datastorytelling #data #chart #graph #democracy

I ruptured my Achilles in January. Couch-bound for most of the winter, I read over a dozen books about walking journeys. I was inspired. Obsessed? I decided to walk across Massachusetts. Decide how you want to experience my story at the LIKK IN BIO: text-first visually aided journey or TLDR mostly images. #walk #walkachusetts #journey #travel #adventure #storytelling #thepudding #achilles

Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef @kenjilopezalt , 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. Checkout the full project at the link in bio! #onion #math #science #food #chef #cutting #dicing #data #datajournalism #journalism #datastorytelling #storytelling #datviz #chart #graph #thepudding