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    Spotify's Biggest One Hit Wonders

    Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" has been played over 68,000,000 times, and makes up 99.5% of plays from his top 5 songs on Spotify.
    public.tableau.com
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    The 'Game of Thrones' Social Network

    In the HBO megahit Game of Thrones, characters, houses, and allegiances continue to change as new kings and queens gain power, opposing sides do battle, and characters meet one another across the...
    news.northeastern.edu
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    An Ocean of Noise

    Exploration of 16 months of Spotify Top 200 streaming data, what it can show us about the useful life of popular music in a streaming context, and avenues for future exploration as more data is...
    noise.danmdoherty.com
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    Alt Music History

    It started with The Sex Pistols. Specifically, with The Sex Pistols’ June 4, 1976 show at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. The concert now ranks as one of the most influential...
    www.wired.com
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    You are what you stream

    Created for a Cannes Lions panel—where Adam Bly, Spotify's VP Data, interviewed burlesque performer Dita Von Teese—this visualization shows how your music streaming habits offer a window into who...
    www.youtube.com
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    Every Hindi film song by Lata Mangeshkar, in one graphic

    Lata Mangeshkar is Bollywood's most prolific playback singer. In a career spanning 73 years, she recorded at least 5,401 songs. For Lata's 87th birthday, Hindustan Times made an interactive data...
    www.hindustantimes.com
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    Stats of the Furious

    While experiencing the beloved "Fast and the Furious" films, one might ask: How fast? How furious? A scrappy team of Bloomberg designers and reporters meticulously analyzed the first seven movies...
    www.bloomberg.com
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    Metal Underground: A Transit Guide to the Heavy Music Underworld

    Metal Underground imagines the sub-genres of heavy metal and related rock as nodes on a transit map with their relationships to each other traced out by subway, tram, and light rail routes. Route...
    quaepidh.files.wordpress.com
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    Is the ending of La La Land hopeful or despairing? Visualizing La La Land's emotional roller coaster using Spotify data

    Visualizing La La Land's emotional roller coaster using Spotify data.
    datanibbl.es
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    A Data Driven Exploration of Kung Fu Films

    Recently, I’ve been a bit caught up in old Kung Fu movies. Shorting any technical explorations, I have instead been diving head-first into any and all Netflix accessible martial arts masterpieces...
    vallandingham.me
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    Wagner's Bayreuther Opera Festival

    The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) asked me to create visualizations for a multiple-paged special on the Bayreuther Festspiele, an opera festival founded by Wagner. The graphs show some...
    www.studioterp.nl
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    Eye on the Prize

    IN COLLABORATION WITH CJR, a team of Columbia Journalism School students transformed our Pulitzer demographics database into an interactive graphic. This project, part of a graduate course on media...
    archives.cjr.org
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    Museum. Space of attention

    The project is a multimedia version of the research that we made for The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. We analyzed video of more than 100 cameras located in different museum areas...
    heatmap.arts-museum.ru
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    Creation of a Thangka

    Thangka is the unique fabric-painting art of Tibet, and few modern people know the origins and production processes of Thangka. I used the form of the temple city to explain the production process...
    www.behance.net
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    Iconic Movie Weapons

    I visual guide to some of the most famous and memorable weapons in cinematic history.
    www.behance.net
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    Gazing Poetic Sound

    Language has two aspects - sound and meaning, and yet we don't tend to care about sound as much as we care about its meaning when using language. This project attempts to draw attention to sound...
    www.behance.net
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    Emotion Park

    Emotion Park is an experimental data visualization project to see how well machines can analyze song lyrics. The visualization tries to capture the emotion of the song lyrics in the form of a...
    mustafasaifee.com
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    Shakespeare: A Data Visualization

    How much, and how often do characters speak in nine famous Shakespeare plays?
    public.tableau.com
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    Sherlock

    BBC One series Sherlock pictures a contemporary version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories. But how different is it from the original narrative? We dissect every episode of the hit show...
    ria.ru
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    Han Chinese Opera

    Han is one of the China local operas, old Chu Han Diao. In May 20, 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In the Chinese drama development history,...
    www.behance.net
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    Hip-Hop Is Turning On Donald Trump

    We looked through decades of rap lyrics and categorized every mention of Donald Trump and other presidential candidates, and presented the results with graphics, sound and an interactive database.
    projects.fivethirtyeight.com
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    Film Money

    Based on film budget, revenue and rating data, Film Money tells the story of the fickle relationship between business interests and public taste. Often demanding huge amounts of effort, manpower...
    www.datamake.io
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    Familiarity vs. Discovery in Spotify Listening

    At Spotify, we're interested in observing users’ behavior and inferring what that means about their relationship to music. This experimental project visualizes several months' worth of listening...
    insights.spotify.com
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    The Eurosearch Song Contest

    What if Google searches were used to award points in the Eurovision Song Contest? What countries would make the final and who would cry victory?  
    googletrends.github.io
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    Unraveling Death in Game of Thrones

    Head on a spike? Check. Shot on the privy? Check. Baked into a pie? Check. Over the past 6 seasons of Game of Thrones, more than 100 characters have been killed off the show — but only one has...
    time.com
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    Mapping America’s Taste in Oscar Films

    How does America watch movies? Do coastal audiences prefer action films? Do movie-goers in the south opt for films that mirror their experiences? We’ve mapped US movie tastes for this year’s Oscars...
    googletrends.github.io
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    The Discworld, Visualised

    A timeline of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and which books each of the most popular characters appears in.
    public.tableau.com
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    The Infinite Drum Machine

    The Infinite Drum Machine can create beats using sounds from the everyday world. Thanks to the Philharmonica Orchestra, London, for contributing some sounds to this project.
    experiments.withgoogle.com
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    Impact of the Oscars nominations

    How big a deal is an Oscar nomination? Most movies make the majority of their profits in the first few weeks after release. A nomination for the Oscars could change this dynamic dramatically,...
    krisztinaszucs.com
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    Star Wars in One Chart

    The Galactic Civil War — recently retold in the military history called Star Wars1 — pitted the Imperial Navy, one of the most sophisticated fighting forces in history, against the ragtag Rebel...
    fivethirtyeight.com
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