Feelings when strangers talk for 30 minutes

For the Pudding, Alvin Chang uses the CANDOR corpus to explore our feelings when we do the unthinkable: talk to strangers.

The story follows a sample of 30-minute conversations between strangers with transitions between anecdotes and patterns. Each square represents an individual as ASCII art, a timer on the right doubles as a progress marker, and in typical Chang style, he keeps you connected to what the data means on a personal level.