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Sketches of a hackday

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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 of chart albums

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

The most played bands for each ´óÏó´«Ã½ music show.
Top artists for Later...

Using to render a wall of ´óÏó´«Ã½ shows.
CoolIris rendering ´óÏó´«Ã½ shows

Mapping the bands from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Introducing.
Map of Introducing bands

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

Graphing when a band released records (that's my own MacBook Air - no, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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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