You aren't a proper stats nerd if you have not scrolled for an hour through all of  The Pudding's  content .  Thank goodness for The Pudding, which helped me spice up the discussion boards in my online stats class. For a long time, I emphasized rigor over wonder. In my stats class, I had topics that were functionally reasonable but not terribly engaging for class discussion. That changed last semester. I spiced up my discussion board with some of my favorite data visualizations, like this one about using a  fast-food app to track power outages  after a natural disaster, and this one that illustrates  data on the efficacy of nutritional supplements  in a beautiful,  functional way. Here is another that lets students look at trends in art and wonder about how this may reflect on cultural shifts in courting and romantic relationships . TL;DR The Pudding recently shared a post about trends in love songs from 1958 through 2023. The whole inter...