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Matt Daniels

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Visual Journalism on The Pudding

Email: matt@pudding.cool. Support The Pudding: patreon.com/thepudding

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Worked on the code for this one and the animating pixel art was quite a doozy to implement! 1/2 pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-p

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Subscription services make signing up easy, but canceling especially hard. @carolinesinders documents the process of trying to unsubscribe from 16 digital subscriptions. This is how companies use dark patterns to force you to stay. pudding.cool/2023/05/dark-p

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2/2 The repo is here!

GitHub - the-pudding/dark-patterns-2

Contribute to the-pudding/dark-patterns-2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk” – The Markup

The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color

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🗺️🌎🛂How to travel the world without a passport! New project for

mapping the thousands of U.S. cities named after foreign places. Design routes, explore maps, and find out how these cities reflect immigrant history

Visit Paris without leaving home

The U.S. is filled with towns and cities that were named after foreign places. In fact, there are so many of these cities that you could go on a world tour without ever leaving the U.S. Check out our...

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AI Drake featuring AI Weeknd (plus the real Metro Boomin tag !?) might be a tipping point for the music industry... here's a story on the questions raised / what happens next

An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World

A track like “Heart on My Sleeve,” which went viral before being taken down by streaming services this week, may be a novelty for now. But the legal and creative questions it raises are here to stay.

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piece dropping next week! 👀 in honor of Ash's adventure ending after 25 years, this piece will let you interactively explore #pokemon data this is one of our most ambitious pieces, combining

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Welcome to Same Name, USA: a map of what place someone is most likely referring to, depending on where they are. 🗺️ pudding.cool/2023/03/same-n

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This apartment conversion interactive by

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Here’s How to Solve a 25-Story Rubik’s Cube

Cities are eager to turn office buildings into housing amid rising remote work. But that's harder than you might think.

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Meet Aika, one of our #data trainers at the Environmental Data Journalism Academy! She has worked at

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, inspiring policy change through her work. Apply now to the Academy to connect with #journalism professionals in the #Philippines. bit.ly/data-j-academy

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Last chance to unlock your environmental storytelling potential with the Environmental Data Journalism Academy! Today is the LAST DAY to apply. Get $2000 upon selection for story production & connect with data and journalism professionals -apply now! bit.ly/data-j-academy

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I am *very* jazzed to be speaking about my work this afternoon at Yale University. If you are in New Haven and want to come see me act like a little fancy boy while I talk about telling stories with maps, please stop by!

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For @voxdotcom I spoke with @renatacherlise, Founder of @blackarchivesco ahead of the publication of Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life. Find our conversation below.

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Alignment > Autonomy

It's easier to measure and feel high autonomy than it is to measure high alignment. But without alignment, autonomy is squandered.

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Groundbreaking work by 8 Colorado prosecutors' offices to publish a set of racial disparity analyses. data.dacolorado.org

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The Pudding now has office hours! We're all booked up, but new slots are added every week for up to 30 days out. I still have slots available for Patreon patrons of The Pudding.

The Pudding: Office Hours

The Pudding explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays, wielding original datasets, primary research, and interactivity. Each of our team members can do every step of this process: research...

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India just passed China as the most populous country in the world. Why? Because of the biggest accident in history Look at where people live in India. What's that band up north?

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We're holding open office hours - come chat with us! notion.so/thepudding/The

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whoa, this is bigger than ChatGPT to me. google almost solved music generation, i'd say. google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm

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marco cornacchia‎‎

ofc i’m bias but this is one of the coolest, most impactful roles in design right now i already work here & still i wanna apply

Design Data Curator

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I'm super excited to announce our Urban Data Science Practitioners Talk Series

! This is meant to introduce those interested in urban data science to the diversity of its applications outside academia. Talks are public. Register here: aap.cornell.edu/news-events/ur

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Cool paper that shows that the “Streetlight Effect” can hurt our ability to be innovative. We tend to focus too quickly on obvious opportunities (under the streetlight), rather than spending time searching for better opportunities hidden in the darkness. abhishekn.com/publications-a

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Spotlight: The Trailblazers, The Risk Takers, The Ceiling Breakers, The Firsts by

| Dataviz • bit.ly/3Xkz6V7 #narrativevisualisation #informationdesign

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The Trailblazers, The Risk Takers, The Ceiling Breakers, The Firsts

This season marks the 50th anniversary Title IX, so Google Trends took a look at how search interest in the WNBA has grown and who has paved the way.

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AI-native advertising chatGPT out of the box does AI-native ads pretty well, working whatever product it's supposedly "sponsored by" into its answer, ranging from Coca Cola to Lockheed Martin to FTX

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"Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd" Now published journals.plos.org/plosone/articl

Fig 2. Attention towards emblematic names of Black Lives Matter.
Top) Heatmap time series of the normalized relative frequency of “Black Lives Matter” and “#BlackLivesMatter”. Main) Heatmap time series displaying the normalized attention over time for the top 50 names in the combined database by peak rank. The top 25 names are labeled. Darker colors indicate more attention, where the normalized attention is 1 (black) on the date of peak attention. Dark bands around June 2020 are observed across many of the rows, indicating a resurgence in attention for many of the emblematic names.

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Hey students! In our latest piece we identified over 1.9M books in English Lit. syllabi since 2010 to build a turn-of-the-century literary canon of the most-assigned readings from the '80s, '90s, & '00s. Now we want to buy those books for you! ➡️🧵 (1/8) pudding.cool/2023/01/lit-ca

Text on a light yellow background that reads: “Hey Students! The Pudding wants to buy one of your class books!” Pictures of the most assigned books from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s appear along the bottom edge.

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Playing with some snowfall data over the weekend - here’s some notable events this year willymaps.github.io/snowfall/

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Really enjoyed this piece by Matt Daniels in The Pudding

What literature do we study from the 1990s?

The turn-of-the-century literary canon, using data from college syllabi

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What literature do we study from the 1990s? In our latest project, we used @opensyllabus to find which books are widely assigned in college-level English Literature classes

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surveyed thousands of people and found that while most millennials knew “No Diggity” only half of the Gen-Z participants did. 😮 Find out which other songs cross the generation gap:

Defining the ’90s Music Canon

Quantifying the songs that will characterize the ’90s

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🎉🎉 Applications for Lede 2023 are now open!!! ledeprogram.com 🎉🎉 If you want to spend ten weeks at Columbia having every facet of data journalism shoved forcefully into your brain, take a peek. Scholarships are available and participation can be remote or in-person!

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The Lede Program for Data Journalism

A 10-week data-driven summer bootcamp to teach journalists and others how to turn data into narrative. Learn Python, web scraping, data visualization and more.

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cheese that listens to hip hop tastes better cheeseinsound.ch/wp-content/upl

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On this week’s ICYMI episode, we talk to

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A great demonstration of the apparent “creativity” of ChatGPT: I gave it the famously quirky essay prompts for the University of Chicago. It didn’t always work, but most answers were quite fun & “creative.” (I tried to use prompts after 2021 so it probably hadn’t “seen” them)

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If Spotify paid 100% of revenue to artists, it would be $0.0057 per stream. Happy now? Focus on new models that increase fandom, connection & music's value.

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The Bouba–Kiki effect depends on the sounds' physical properties (with kikiness associated to high tones and boubaness associated to low tones), but not on how the mouth articulates these sounds link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758/s

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New round up of projects from the past couple months at

thepuddingmail.substack.com

The mathematical oddity that enables the super rich, and more

Projects from The Pudding about economic mobility, emotional awareness, and why the rich get richer.

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One of the coolest things of 2022 Thanks

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And a collaboration with Oscar Molina Palestina published in Spanish and English pudding.cool/2022/09/cdmx/

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And a collaboration with Oscar Molina Palestina published in Spanish and English

The Sounds of CDMX

How informal street vendors define the sonic landscape of Mexico’s capital

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2. I published two fully-bilingual interactive stories. Moving toward a personal aspiration for my work: reporting more for communities than about communities.

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