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I’ve been playing around with David Mackenzie’s They Might Be Giants lyrics data set. This visualization enumerates every unique word that appears in They Might Be Giants’ songs, in chronological order—at least according to how those lyrics are transcribed on tmbw.net (meaning that there’s no fancy stemming of “p-p-puppet” to “puppet”). The lexicon is presented in the style of film credits.

Note the speed controls to the right. The default speed (a speed at which I find reading comfortable) takes about 30 minutes to get through the entire list, so you may want to speed it up.

Sketch of visualization for personal income tax rates project from KPMG report in Alberto Cairo’s Intro to Infographics course.

“Other results”? Really? Do you suppose Netflix uses their search results to promote their own content?

My entry in the Visualize the Return on Education challenge on visualizing.org.

Collision detection with a quadtree in Processing. Don’t know if I’ll end up using it, but it was good exercise.

Another sketch of this graph idea.

Yesterday I came across this graph of influential thinkers. It inspired me to take a similar approach with the Irish tune visualization I’ve been working on. This could turn out really cool. Or it will just be really noisy, as this first attempt clearly is.

Made this using Gephi. A handy, open source graph visualization tool.