MetaFilter posts tagged with charts

This is Why The Music Industry is Screwed

rageagainsttherobots — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:25:13 -0800

In 2005, Look Around You created a brilliant satirical video about the music industry charts.

Armchair pediatrician

puckish — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:28:45 -0800

Do you have a rash? Is your knee deformed? Why does my tooth hurt? (and other fun medical flow charts) For the paranoids and hypochondriacs among us. Gross, but oddly fascinating... (Full list of symptoms here)

The music of our times

mock — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:23:00 -0800

The past year in economics and politics as described by Microsoft Songsmith (SLYP) via this guy

Infopornographics

puckish — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:58:56 -0800

Everything is prettier as a flow chart. See, for instance: The blogosphere, the relative permanency of visible and invisible worlds, your bike, U.S. interstates, the Maginot Line, moon cycles, Cubism, Enron, the financial crisis, the Apollo landing site, Lisa's cold, fertility, and Ninja Turtles. There appears to be no rhyme or reason, other than a stringent belief in order and luck with google hits. From the thread author: I find these by compulsively searching google images. A search might be one of these words (Weather, Perfect, Beautiful, Temperature, Flow, Process, Affordability) plus one of these words (Graphic, Graph, Infographic, Diagram, Chart, Plot, Map), then I just flip through the pages looking for any that are beautiful in either content or aesthetics. Enjoy!

The #1 Song On This Date in History

purephase — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:29:36 -0800

Ever wondered what the number one song was on your birthday? Anniversary? the day John Lennon was shot?, the attack on Pearl Harbor? (last two links can open iTunes directly).

Well, wonder no more. (via reddit)

Dorothy Gambrell is very fond of data

nebulawindphone — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:28:12 -0800

Year Zero throughout history. Waffle Houses per capita. The 20th Century on Google Image. Dorothy Gambrell is very fond of data. (Previously. Also.)

Relax. Just chart it!

KevinSkomsvold — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:16:04 -0800

Song Chart Meme. A series of charts breaking down popular music.

Indexed on US Politics

whir — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:47:31 -0800

Jessica Hagy, author of indexed (previously) covers the 2008 Presidential Election for McClatchy's "alt.campaign" site.

A Study in the Trickyness Involved in Rocking a Rhyme

31d1 — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:52:30 -0800

Rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs.

A well-done "The Band" fan site

St Urbain's Horseman — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:21:13 -0800

The Band is one of the more user-friendly fan sites I have come across. What I appreciate most is the (unadvertised) chord charts. They are not always right but they are often not wrong. Subtle, theatrical chromaticism, your name is ~~Mozart~~ Robbie Robertson.

The Manual (How To Have a Number One - The Easy Way)

yeti — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:19:43 -0800

The Manual (How To Have a Number One - The Easy Way). Both light-hearted and thorough, the Timelords, aka the KLF, wrote this tongue-in-cheek manual in 1988 following their own novelty pop No. 1 "Doctorin' the Tardis". "If you are already a musician stop playing your instrument. Even better, sell the junk. It will become clearer later on but just take our word for it for the time being." Oh and apparently have lots of tea on hand.

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alms — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:05:51 -0800

An average of 81 people die of gunshot wounds in the US each day. Most of them aren't who you'd expect.

Le Grand Content

jonson — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:15:58 -0800

Le Grand Content (embedded QT) is a short film inspired by the (previously mentioned) awesome charts-as-life-descriptors blog Indexed (and in fact, found via that site). More on the project here.

Medical terms, such as "LOLFDGB" - Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom

dios — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:32:19 -0800

Doctor's slang that might be on your chart.

Charts.

Kwantsar — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:09:50 -0800

Charts. This page contains many charts.

3D Starmaps

jiawen — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:52:10 -0800

3D Starmaps by Winchell Chung. (I knew him for his game illustrations before I ever knew about his starmaps.) The site contains lots of information about how to make 2D/3D starmaps from standard star tables, a nice selection of pre-existing maps and one of the best listings of 3D starmap software around.

War on Drugs, by the numbers

daksya — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:24:29 -0800

In the "debate" over the War on Drugs, there's a lack of nice quantitative data presentation in one place. Brian C Bennett aims to rectify that. From trends in alcohol initiation relative to legal age limits, to investigation of the deaths classified by CDC as marijuana-induced. There are lots of charts, as for cocaine purity over the years, or treatment admissions, or arrest trends. The site map is your quick guide to the 2000 charts & articles.

Everything looks better with a graph

jonson — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 01:05:10 -0800

My awesomeness is at an all time high, as this chart will clearly demonstrate. And thanks to the magical people at Bellygraph.com, I can create & update charts to illustrate all the trends that matter to me, from my own personal awesomeness to total number of pugs owned or whatever other metric I choose.

Where's Dokken?

Kattullus — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:29:18 -0800

A Collection of 'All Time' Best Albums Charts from the US, UK, Netherlands & Belgium. Guess which chart has 3 dEUS albums in the top 20?

Anti-Hit List is Alive

boost ventilator — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:37:27 -0800

The Anti-Hit List , by John Sakamoto, continues to unearth music from the depths of the net and through rare releases. It can be found in the pages of the Toronto Star and is now available in convenient podcast form. Note: previous death and rebirth of the site.

Do you look like your race?

BuddhaInABucket — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:36:59 -0800

Face Analyzer Just upload a picture of your face and get feedback on what ethnicity you most resemble and a physiognomatic breakdown of your personality.

Anti-Hit List

boost ventilator — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:56:26 -0800

As its old home lies dormant, John Sakamoto'sAnti-Hit List continues on in the pages of Toronto's Eye Weekly. Where else could you hear about The Flaming Lips covering Kylie, Ween singing ~~for~~ about Pizza Hut or quite possibly the best song title in ages.

boost ventilator — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:18:30 -0800

The End of the Anti-Hit List? "And with that, the Anti-Hit List is retiring, at least for the foreseeable future."

John Sakamoto's Alternate Top 10 (AKA The Anti-Hit List) was one of the best top ten music lists on the net. It was short and sweet and a great way to discover b-sides, covers and alternate versions of songs from a wide variety of artists. And to think, it all started back on March 12, 1996.

wsfinkel — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:22:12 -0800

The King Lives! Elvis is back on top of the United Kingdom Singles chart with the remix of "A Little Less Conversation". This is Elvis' 17th UK #1 moving him past the Beatles for the most ever. In other news, Disney's Lilo and Stitch features an Elvis imitating alien. All this is in advance of the 25th Anniversary of the King's Passing, which will be commemorated with an RCA album "ELV1S 30 #1 Hits", which is to include all #30 of Elvis' hits internationally. The King Truly Lives!

Perigee — Sun, 26 May 2002 08:56:07 -0800

The patient refused an autopsy. (Via Linklust) Sunday silliness; bloopers made by doctors on medical charts and records