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Tristan Ferne | 08:53 UK time, Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Last week Radio Labs and RAD held a joint mini-hackday to explore visualising some of our music data. We had several multi-disciplinary teams building quick prototypes and hacks, what I called "sketching with data, designing with code". Here are some snapshots of the results...

Album covers from the charts are laid out as a treemap.
Treemap of chart albums

Filtering the charts by weather conditions.
Filtering the charts by weather

The most played bands for each BBC music show.
Top artists for Later...

Using CoolIris to render a wall of BBC shows.
CoolIris rendering BBC shows

Mapping the bands from BBC Introducing.
Map of Introducing bands

A Wordle of lyrics from the charts.
A Wordle of chart lyrics

Graphing when a band released records (that's my own MacBook Air - no, the BBC doesn't give us these!)
Graphing bands' releases

We're picking this work up again now to take the best of these ideas and try to build something great. More soon.

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