For this year's rankings, I decided to use data: I rated every single song on every single album I added to my library this year. Hit the jump to see the rankings across genres, track counts, and what I learned about emotions vs analytics...
Tag: data-analysis
"Top five dead or alive and that's just off one LP Network Graph?" This clever project applies PageRank to the Top 5 MC debate and visualizes the top MC's according to the MC's themselves: Top 5 Rappers of All Time...
Next up is a dope on-going graphic design project focused on Hip-Hop statistics and data visualization: Web of Bars...
This is a dope analysis of music sampling networks by Justin Tran: Music Sampling Networks...
This project by Nikhil Sharma and Raghava Govil analyzes the sentiments of Denzel Curry's latest album TA13OO...
Are We Having Fun Yet? On Pop’s Morose New Normal. This article from Pitchfork pulls together examples, numbers, and insight about what I've been feeling about popular music lately. It's a great read on what has changed, why it may have changed, and...
I’ve been loving the hip hop data analysis by Ben Carter whenever I see it posted. He has a great blog and has been on a tear lately with...
A few weeks ago, Joe Fox of the LA Times published this amazing bit of data driven journalism: How to find the shade at Dodger Stadium...
This is a beautiful piece of coding and journalism from ESPN. I love the layout of the timeline, especially the embedded videos: The Making of Lavar. It's extermely effective at communicating Lavar's "rise". Whether you read each event or you fly...