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danielsf··on A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...
danielsf··on A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
Thanks!
danielsf··on The Gyllenhaal Experiment
This is a live dataset. All the examples except for Britney Spears are using user-submitted answers.
danielsf··on The Gyllenhaal Experiment
the correct path is always blue. path popularity is based on line thickness.
danielsf··on The Gyllenhaal Experiment
author here if anyone has q's
danielsf··on Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary (Updated January 16, 2019)
author here, that'd be great!
danielsf··on Population Mountains
I made this. MVP comment.
danielsf··on Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
repo is here: https://github.com/polygraph-cool/song-repetition
danielsf··on Repetitiveness and compressibility analysis in song lyrics
ah I think it's due to the high viewport height that we didn't account for (it's rare, but in your case, it broke the code). thanks!
danielsf··on Repetitiveness and compressibility analysis in song lyrics
I worked on this project. Can you share your screen size, device, and browser version?
danielsf··on Repetitiveness and compressibility analysis in song lyrics
D3!
danielsf··on Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016
THIS: http://poly-graph.co/timeless
danielsf··on Every top 5 song from 1958 to 2016
i made this. you can get much of it from billboard, though i used the whitburn project.
danielsf··on Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, broken down by gender and age
Author here: we scraped every script website on the Internet. First we tried to normalize the dataset but only doing stats on the top 1,000 box office, but we were missing too many scripts. So we decided to go big and then display a cut of the data that's only films in the top 2,500 box office (we had about half of those).

We're aware of sampling error and the potential for cherry-picking, but also struggled to figure out what was a representative sample.

danielsf··on Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, broken down by gender and age
author here. YESSSSS
danielsf··on Film Dialouge Broken Down by Gender and Age
This was omitted from the piece, but we count words and then convert to lines at ~10 words/line. When pop culture talks about dialogue in film, we use lines. So that felt more natural than "# of words spoken."
danielsf··on [dead]
I made this!
danielsf··on Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015
nope. when things are in an inactive tab...browsers slow down the JS and it crawls to a halt. So I just decided to stop it all together. You could have it in another window in the background though!
danielsf··on Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015
Author here, if anyone has q's
danielsf··on The Journalist-Engineer
No monetization plan. I'm burning through savings :)
danielsf··on The Journalist-Engineer
Yea I didn't think anyone would read this Medium post and was lazy about the Trello board. Filling it out now :)
danielsf··on The Journalist-Engineer
Author of the Medium post here...

This point comes up a lot...there's a tension in making the data say something interesting that will get traffic/spread, which might undermine the rigor that goes into real data-analysis/data science/academic work.

IMO, as long as we disclose the source and preface the biases/problems, I'm ok with data that isn't perfect (after all, there's no such thing as a perfect data set).

The lyrical analysis that I did for rappers would never work in academia...the data set wasn't strong enough. But, it was good enough for the Internet as a side-project, and I think that most readers understood the integrity issues with the data (which I also highlighted in the narrative).

But yea, really good points about journalistic standards for coders who write journalism-esque content.

danielsf··on The Journalist-Engineer
Author of the article here – totally agree. D3 has totally changed the game.
danielsf··on The Journalist-Engineer
author here...I don't have any services. what's so ad-driven about it? It was meant to be a statement about why I'm so passionate about the space right now :)
danielsf··on The Journalist-Engineer
author here, if anyone has q's
danielsf··on Hip hop samples, mapped to your keyboard
It's a little bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw2RT_vQDQk
danielsf··on Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
I kept this focused on vocab so that the data viz was very straightforward and easy to digest/draw insights from. I've had many requests for album sales to be added, and I plan to as soon as possible :)
danielsf··on Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
I only have rap data, sadly :(
danielsf··on Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
OP: he's an associate, not a member
danielsf··on Rappers, Sorted by Size of Vocabulary
4!
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