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Data stories and visualization · by The Pudding (small independent team)

The Pudding

A publication of interactive visual essays on culture (music, words, film, the internet), with the datasets and analysis scripts behind many stories released on GitHub.

Each story asks a playful question about everyday culture and answers it with a dataset you can open and reuse yourself.

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Open pudding.cool ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API
API unclear
Data download
Yes csv, json
License
MIT (data repository) datasets and scripts in the the-pudding/data repo only; stories and graphics have no stated reuse license; some entries link to other repos with their own terms
Commercial use
Commercial use OK
“Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell” github.com/the-pudding/data/blob/master/LICENSE
Credit
Credit required
“The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.” github.com/the-pudding/data/blob/master/LICENSE
Embedding
Embedding unclear
Using the website
Free

Read on The Pudding's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

No official API. An agent should not scrape the site: use it by hand or through its downloads.

  • Get data from github.com/the-pudding/data (one folder per story slug; the README table lists each dataset and its update frequency); there is no API.
  • Keep the MIT copyright notice ('Copyright (c) 2019 The Pudding') when you redistribute the data
  • Do not copy or embed the stories' text and graphics; only the data repo carries a license
  • Check the linked repo's own license for datasets hosted outside the-pudding/data

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/the-pudding/agent.md before using The Pudding.

What you can build

  • A notebook or dashboard that re-analyses one Pudding dataset with a new angle, credited to The Pudding
  • A teaching kit that pairs each Pudding story with its CSV for a data-journalism class
  • A small chart app built on a Pudding dataset (MIT, keep the license notice)

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