The Pudding publishes interactive data storytelling stories on a variety of subjects and topics.
Most recent articles include, “Happy Map,” “Sizing Chaos,” and “Musical Motifs,” although past articles show a range of topics including political, social, pop-culture, sports, and food. Stories often mix custom imagery with dynamic data visualizations to create engaging visual journalism stories.
From their about page:
We believe in journalism that denounces false equivalence, one that can explicitly say Black Lives Matter, one that never views human rights as partisan issues, and one that believes a person’s own experiences are central to strong storytelling.
We hope to be a place that centers and amplifies voices that have long been ignored. We strive for our journalism to be one of key making, not gate keeping, and we won’t shy away from stories that tackle racism, sexism, and classism head on.
We are committed to listening, learning, making changes, and being proactive in the fight for equity, inclusion, and racial and social justice.
Pudding articles are great for classroom instruction either as an introduction to the topic the article explores, as examples of data storytelling, or as inspiration for zine or data visualization/physicalization activities. With over 200 articles to explore across a range of subjects students are sure to find a topic that speaks to them in the archives. Pudding articles are great examples of creating publicly accessible and engaging research-based articles online that can be emulated in many ways both digitally and physically.
The Pudding also holds a yearly competition, The Pudding Cup, which all are encourage to enter with accessible and flexible rules about platforms and tools used to create submissions.
You can also find an open repository of the data used to create Pudding articles on their github.
The Pudding also publishes a newsletter that you can sign-up for to stay in touch about most recent articles, Pudding Cup awards, and more from the team.
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