🟠 Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
By Russell Samora @russell
at @puddingviz.bsky.social #ThePudding
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

#Literature #English #EnglishSimiles #Similes
https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes/

The Pudding has a new post on dicing onions + math!!

https://pudding.cool/2025/08/onions/

#onions #math #thePudding #pudding

Some light reading for a bit of a distraction, if you will: Vivian Li from @thepudding looked at how "cultures can hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently".

https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/

#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #data #dataviz #ThePudding

Resharing this #dataviz project from The Pudding from two years ago on its second anniversary, accompanied by an article from one of its authors.

"During the design phase, we learned there were legal constraints to having pictures of banknotes on our site."

https://nightingaledvs.com/interactive-data-diaries-banknotes/

Link: https://pudding.cool/2022/04/banknotes/

#data #DataVisualization #money #currency #BankNotes #ThePudding

The Pudding published the results for their recent collaborative drawing experiment:

https://pudding.cool/projects/flipbook/

#ThePudding

🕰️ CLOCK OF THE MONTH 🕰️

We all dream of connecting with the here and now. The ever illusive present moment. This clever little tool from The Pudding gives you songs, youtube videos, headlines, and populations that match with the current minute of the day, and contextualise the present through online data.

https://pudding.cool/projects/clocks/news/

#DomesticStreamers
#ThePudding
#ClockoftheMonth

https://pudding.cool/2023/07/songwriters/

Uh, oh, there's sexism involved when it comes to writing songs for the music industry.....

#sexism #songwriting #thepudding