The Pudding

To be honest, we almost didn’t do The Pudding Cup this year. AI fatigue hit hard. But human curiosity is still worth celebrating. Submit your best visual data-driven stories of the year.

🗓️ Deadline: Nov. 30 (free entry)
💸 Up to 3 winners, $1,500 each

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After learning about one man’s effort to calculate pi to 607 digits by hand in 1853, we fell down a 150-year rabbit hole connecting those digits to the nature of randomness. With a twist as wild as the one in You Can See Everything.

Experience it in 3 formats, links threaded!

Door 1, 2, or 3? 🚪✨
Explore a room of thousands of humans wrestling with whether there is an afterlife—and see how religion, culture, and aging changes where we stand in the room.
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Over 30,000 people have mowed our digital lawn so far, but only 16% found the perfect path. How close will you get to the optimal solution? Go ahead, touch grass.

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We’ve revamped our pitch guidelines to help us surface the best ideas faster! 📢 Have a data story you're obsessed with telling? We want to hear it.

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