Sketches of a hackday

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.

Filtering the charts by weather conditions.

The most played bands for each BBC music show.

Using CoolIris to render a wall of BBC shows.

Mapping the bands from BBC Introducing.

A Wordle of lyrics from the charts.

Graphing when a band released records (that's my own MacBook Air - no, the BBC doesn't give us these!)

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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