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Beautiful visualization of data as usual, Pudding.cool never miss. It indeed appears that we're increasingly leaning towards more repetition, I suppose it's mo

by mdrzn 3y ago

Beautiful visualization of data as usual, Pudding.cool never miss. It indeed appears that we're increasingly leaning towards more repetition, I suppose it's more appealing to our TikTok-conditioned minds.

manuel_w 3y ago
> Beautiful visualization of data Absolutely. The visualizations in that song text really add value.
brabel 3y ago
How can I learn to do this? That's amazing! I wish I could use these kinds of visualizations on my programming language benchmarks analysis posts :D.
- Vinnl 3y ago
  You'll probably want to look into D3. This is a pretty good course: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3 https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3 (Knowing JavaScript and HTML/SVG beforehand certainly won't hurt.)
- emsixteen 3y ago
  I'm right there with you, I'd love to know how to do these.
stordoff 3y ago
> Beautiful visualization of data as usual I would disagree with that to an extent for the distribution below "I excluded the 20 most repetitive songs in the dataset from the above chart. When you see what it looks like with them, you'll understand why". I had both distributions on screen so I could compare them, and was staring at them for a good while thinking I was missing something obvious. The animation that actually revealed the difference didn't start until I'd given up and scrolled the diagram most of the way off the screen. Had I scrolled a little faster to the next section (or possibly used page down/space), I would have missed the animation entirely.
- mewpmewp2 3y ago
  I didn't see the animation and was just as confused. I finally shook it off, but it made me more skeptical for the whole article, because I couldn't align with judgment of the author. Only now seeing your comment, I realised that there was an animation and now things make sense yes. I think I had scroll at the image + the paragraph below and once I read the paragraph I decided to scroll quite quickly and either to completely new page or I was already focused on the table, because that did seem interesting information. Thinking back now, it's weird how this one thing made me view the whole thing more skeptically, only to realise it was a miscommunication in a way.
codeflo 3y ago
> Beautiful visualization of data The "Repetition of Popular Music, by Year" graph doesn't work for me. First it's empty, When I scroll past the graph and back, it seems to show data sometimes, but only when it's not in the viewport. As soon as I scroll it into view, it undraws the data and is blank again. I don't even have any blockers installed on this browser. Beautiful for me = less shitty JavaScript that prevents me from seeing the graphs.
AlecSchueler 3y ago
It's also more globally marketable. If you only have words like "hey baby, oh oh oh" then pretty much anyone in the world will be able to understand it, but "that's me in the corner losing my religion" has a high barrier to understanding for non natives.
jetrink 3y ago
> I suppose it's more appealing to our TikTok-conditioned minds. Tik Tok directly influences the charts as well as video views are counted as streams. As a result, songs that are fun or funny to dance to for 20 seconds can quickly end up in the Top 10. Tik Tok also has had a significant indirect influence recently with songs and artists that go viral there finding mainstream success afterward, e.g. Lil Nas X, Doja Cat, and Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.
karmakaze 3y ago
It's really confusing (and unnecessary) to keep switching between two kinds of percentages: compression ratio and size reduction. At least one of the illustrations seems to be labelled size reduction, but is showing compression ratios. Maybe they mean 'reduced size %' == 'compression ratio' when they say size reduction, in which case why use both terms?

by mdrzn 3y ago

manuel_w 3y ago

> Beautiful visualization of data Absolutely. The visualizations in that song text really add value.

brabel 3y ago

How can I learn to do this? That's amazing! I wish I could use these kinds of visualizations on my programming language benchmarks analysis posts :D.

Vinnl 3y ago
You'll probably want to look into D3. This is a pretty good course: https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3 https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3 (Knowing JavaScript and HTML/SVG beforehand certainly won't hurt.)
emsixteen 3y ago
I'm right there with you, I'd love to know how to do these.

stordoff 3y ago

> Beautiful visualization of data as usual I would disagree with that to an extent for the distribution below "I excluded the 20 most repetitive songs in the dataset from the above chart. When you see what it looks like with them, you'll understand why". I had both distributions on screen so I could compare them, and was staring at them for a good while thinking I was missing something obvious. The animation that actually revealed the difference didn't start until I'd given up and scrolled the diagram most of the way off the screen. Had I scrolled a little faster to the next section (or possibly used page down/space), I would have missed the animation entirely.

mewpmewp2 3y ago
I didn't see the animation and was just as confused. I finally shook it off, but it made me more skeptical for the whole article, because I couldn't align with judgment of the author. Only now seeing your comment, I realised that there was an animation and now things make sense yes. I think I had scroll at the image + the paragraph below and once I read the paragraph I decided to scroll quite quickly and either to completely new page or I was already focused on the table, because that did seem interesting information. Thinking back now, it's weird how this one thing made me view the whole thing more skeptically, only to realise it was a miscommunication in a way.

codeflo 3y ago

> Beautiful visualization of data The "Repetition of Popular Music, by Year" graph doesn't work for me. First it's empty, When I scroll past the graph and back, it seems to show data sometimes, but only when it's not in the viewport. As soon as I scroll it into view, it undraws the data and is blank again. I don't even have any blockers installed on this browser. Beautiful for me = less shitty JavaScript that prevents me from seeing the graphs.

AlecSchueler 3y ago

It's also more globally marketable. If you only have words like "hey baby, oh oh oh" then pretty much anyone in the world will be able to understand it, but "that's me in the corner losing my religion" has a high barrier to understanding for non natives.

jetrink 3y ago

> I suppose it's more appealing to our TikTok-conditioned minds. Tik Tok directly influences the charts as well as video views are counted as streams. As a result, songs that are fun or funny to dance to for 20 seconds can quickly end up in the Top 10. Tik Tok also has had a significant indirect influence recently with songs and artists that go viral there finding mainstream success afterward, e.g. Lil Nas X, Doja Cat, and Dreams by Fleetwood Mac.

karmakaze 3y ago

It's really confusing (and unnecessary) to keep switching between two kinds of percentages: compression ratio and size reduction. At least one of the illustrations seems to be labelled size reduction, but is showing compression ratios. Maybe they mean 'reduced size %' == 'compression ratio' when they say size reduction, in which case why use both terms?