Data Underload #1

21 Comments

• Scio — December 14, 2009 at 3:52 am

  Confused am I… But so pretty!
  • Nathan Yau — December 14, 2009 at 11:16 am

    it’s the top 10 songs from Billboard:

    http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/hot-100
• Mark — December 14, 2009 at 5:46 am

  Only one I got off the top of my head was #6, Imogen Heap ftw
• Ian — December 14, 2009 at 9:25 am

  2 – Lady Gaga?

  5 – Grave of the Fireflies?

  9 – Threesome I guess. Noting the specification that +1 is pink (i.e. female)
• Hadley — December 14, 2009 at 9:46 am

  Cute! But your readers obviously don’t listen to pop.
  • Nathan Yau — December 14, 2009 at 11:15 am

    ha, yeah, i think something got lost in translation.
• m — December 14, 2009 at 11:03 am

  Are you sure you have the right song for #7?

  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=i+was+hanging+in+the+corner+with+my+five+best+friends&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
• franiwack — December 14, 2009 at 11:08 am

  britney says she’s caught in between, so “me” should be in the middle?

  very cute stuff! now i have all these songs stuck in my head…
• Daniel McLaren — December 14, 2009 at 11:50 am

  For a second, I thought, “yay, it’s Friday” because of Friday’s fun charts but then I realized it’s Monday.
  • Nathan Yau — December 14, 2009 at 11:58 am

    @daniel – i’m shifting gears a little to lessen the cases of the moowndays :).
    • Daniel McLaren — December 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm

      I like it! A nice chart to brighten the Monday. Cheers!
• Tim — December 14, 2009 at 6:38 pm

  if you like this, check out djearworm.com and listen to “United State of Pop” for various years that he did it.

  they are mashups where he picks one tune and mixes in the top charting tunes for the year.

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• Greg J. Smith — December 14, 2009 at 10:43 pm

  This is both baffling and charming. Nathan, did somebody slip something in your drink? ;)
  • Nathan Yau — December 14, 2009 at 11:23 pm

    nobody understands me!
    • justin — December 15, 2009 at 11:57 am

      but we love you anyway
• Moses Ting — December 15, 2009 at 12:14 pm

  LOL, I got your visualization. Mad creative & awesome. What gave you the idea?
  • Nathan Yau — December 15, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    @Moses – yes! i amused one person. that is all i need. this is going to be a weekly thing here… sort of a data comic, called “data underload,” this being #1. i’m going to be visualizing things that really have no need to be visualized.

    i’ll explain myself better in an upcoming post.
    • Moses Ting — December 15, 2009 at 4:45 pm

      Data Underload is a good play on words. Data Visualization’s main purpose (well, one of them) is to make it easier to digest data. I like.
• Moses Ting — December 15, 2009 at 4:43 pm

  Any chance I can collaborate on a visualization or two? Big fan and I’ve got some illustrator/photoshop skills. BTW, do you know of a good resource for generating area maps, such as what you did for #1 above.

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