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    The unlikely odds of making it big

    What three years and 75,000 shows in New York tell us about the chance your favorite band will succeed.
    pudding.cool
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    The most popular of them all: a look at fanfiction's favorite ships

    There are many aspects to the Harry Potter franchise: books, movies, a new play, studio tours and theme parks. But when it comes to gauging fan reaction, there’s probably no better place than...
    sxywu.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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Visualizing Nonlinear Narratives with Story Curves

    A nonlinear narrative is a storytelling device that portrays events of a story out of chronological order. Story curves visualize the nonlinear narrative of a movie by showing the order in which...
    storycurve.namwkim.org
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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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    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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    Shakespeare: A Data Visualization

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

    This visualization on charity songs was created on invitation by Datasketch.es (Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer). While the subject was "community", I chose to visualize the (top contributing) charity...
    www.studioterp.nl
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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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    Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?

    In 1977, the great computer scientist Donald Knuth published a paper called The Complexity of Songs, which is basically one long joke about the repetitive lyrics of newfangled music (example quote:...
    pudding.cool
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    An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton

    An analysis of the more than 21,000 words in the Hamilton musical, and a write-up of the relational and thematic insights that were found. Includes an interactive exploratory tool at the end, where...
    pudding.cool
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  • Medium

    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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    Literary Constellations

    When a story is well-written, you can become so immersed while reading that it becomes your world. All your surroundings disappear and all that remains are the words on the page guiding you through...
    www.c82.net
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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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    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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    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 Dada

    "Mapping Dada" is a piece that uses the Wikipedia link structure, combined with a modified version of Google's 'PageRank' equation, to track the movement of Dada through history.
    www.mappingdada.info
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • Medium

    The BFI Filmography Dashboard

    The ‘BFI Filmography’ is a collection of over 10,000 film titles condensed into one dashboard of interactive data visualisations. Launched in September 2017, it is the largest public searchable...
    filmography.bfi.org.uk
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  • Medium

    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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    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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