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Matt Daniels from The Pudding

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We have Matt Daniels on the show again (after more than 3 years!). Matt is the CEO of The Pudding, a collective of journalist-engineers that create visual essays that explain ideas debated in culture. Their pieces are incredibly engaging, somewhat witty and always stunning from the visual point of view.

Since our first interview with Matt, The Pudding has been hugely successful with visual essays being very popular and highly debated at the same time. The Pudding has also a very interesting business structure being partially financed by its readers and accepting submissions for visual pieces developed by freelancers.

On the show we talk about what the Pudding is and how it operated. We also comment on some of the most popular pieces. And finally Matt provides more details on how you can get involved with the Pudding and work with them if you want.

Links

• Matt Daniels from The Pudding
• Project: Ali Wong – The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
• Project: Women’s Pockets are Inferior
• Inside The Pudding: The working process
• Book: Creativity Inc.
• How to get involved with The Pudding: the backlog
• The Pudding GitHub repository
• Support The Pudding on Patreon
• How to pitch ideas to The Pudding

• The Pudding: Ali Wong. The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy
• The Pudding: Women’s pockets are inferior

• Polygraph and The Journalist Engineer Matt Daniels
• svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger