the-pudding/data resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A collection of open datasets published by The Pudding, a visual journalism outlet, accompanying their data-driven stories. Each subdirectory contains the data behind a specific story, covering topics from pop culture to demographics.

Use cases

• find open datasets for data visualization practice
• get data behind a Pudding visual essay
• find cultural datasets for a data science project
• reproduce or extend a published data journalism analysis
• find example datasets for teaching data visualization
• explore datasets on music, sports, and demographics

When to choose

• you want real-world, story-backed datasets for visualization or analysis
• you need interesting cultural or social datasets with permissive MIT licensing
• you are teaching or learning data viz and want varied example data

When to avoid

• you need continuously updated or maintained datasets - most are static snapshots
• you need large-scale or production-grade data infrastructure
• you need datasets on a specific topic not covered by Pudding stories

Facets

dataset · maturity active

data-science data-visualization data-science data-visualization cross-platform open-data journalism visual-essays csv cultural-data the-pudding culture

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