# the-pudding/data

Data sets created for stories on The Pudding, open to the public.

Repository: https://github.com/the-pudding/data
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/the-pudding-data
Homepage: https://github.com/the-pudding/data
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-04T13:11:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3227, "days_push": 29, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1074, forks 253 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:29.088618+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: data-science, data-visualization
- domain: data-science, data-visualization
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: open-data, journalism, visual-essays, csv, cultural-data, the-pudding, culture

## Member repositories
- the-pudding/data (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.088618+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:53:33.605047+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/the-pudding/data (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.088618+00:00, sha 5d548643e6d2)
  - homepage: https://github.com/the-pudding/data (fetched 2026-08-29T12:55:13.244462+00:00, sha 72faa7a368f8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.