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[Project] The rise and fall of minimal techno #121

Open maxarvid opened 6 years ago

maxarvid commented 6 years ago

Pitch

Summary

I got minimal techno album releases from discogs. I want to tell the story of the rise and fall of this niche subgenre, both temporally and geographically.

Some of the inspiration comes from the metal band per capita map. p5yfz

Ideally, we'll end up with an animated gif of the rise and fall of minimal techno, maybe through qgis? 1_7u_lvl315kknn4mmuik3zg

Details

Possible headline(s): Minimal Techno is Over AND the rise and fall of minimal techno

Data set(s): https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/01_minimal_techno

Code repository: https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/01_minimal_techno

Possible problems/fears/questions: Discogs list might not be complete. I'd like to have it animate to show change over time on a map.

Work so far

I messed around, here are two graphs (over time, and top countries): over_time

top_countries

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cfelke commented 6 years ago

Great choice of color! Seriously, I think you should pursue your idea of doing an animated gif of a choropleth to show the rise and fall of minimal techno over time.

adrianblanco commented 6 years ago

I'd suggest to compare minimal techno with other techno styles to see if there is a trend in the genre. Also, I am really interested in knowing why after 2007 minimal techno number of records went down. Maybe a data join with other data sources that provide number of plays of minimal techno songs, songs revenue, etc. to explain the phenomena?

maxarvid commented 6 years ago

Made a working prototype of a gif, which I'll clean up tomorrow: minimal_techno_albums

cfelke commented 6 years ago

I'm still shipping the idea of showing the rise and fall of minimal techno with an animated gif. I can't really see the country lines, though. So it's hard to tell where minimal techno was popular or rather developed over time. Go for some color!

adrianblanco commented 6 years ago

Some ideas:

maxarvid commented 6 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Minimal Techno

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Changing the color palette, inspiration from our mascot above.

Here below are three illustrations, the fixed map will follow.

top_10_edited top_5_edited over_time_edited

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sarahslo commented 6 years ago

so...can you dig into the data here, maybe show me a series of charts by each year with releases by country? is germany always number 1? are there years when other places challenged that position? or can you chart all the countries in 2007 at the peak? are there artists that show up over time that could have interesting trends?

or can you put this in context of other types of techno or other types of music? that was your original pitch. i'd like to see that, it would help me understand why this is of interest.

important tho, is you give us some sort of definition. what is 'minimal' techno?

tsp2123 commented 6 years ago

Excellent color choices my friend! Big fan of this project did you end up putting this in HTML and writing a story? I would be curious to have some text putting these graphs in context

maxarvid commented 6 years ago

Update

Your project content: https://maxarvid.github.io/minimal_techno/

Any changes in direction or topic?

Since I've fallen a bit behind, I've not made any major changes to the project (apart from adding a minimal description of what minimal techno is).

Problems/Questions

Moving QGIS files around makes for a very angry program, which took the liberty of hiding my hard work on figuring out its time manager plugin. Will update as I figure out where it's gone.

Checklist

Weihua4455 commented 6 years ago

lol Love the meme.

For the map, I'd either change the color of the base map or change the color of the dots. Currently, the colors (especially the light pink and purple) doesn't really pop. Also, are you representing the change in numbers with both the change of color & size? If so, maybe stick with one color and change the sizes only?