What are you doing with the 893 Albums data?
May 12, 2016
As we're counting down The Current's 893 Essential Albums — as chosen by you — we're absolutely delighted and humbled by our wonderful listeners who are doing fun and fascinating things with the data. It's so rewarding to see how you are connecting with the statistics this amazing countdown is generating.
People have come up with some amazing ideas; we've mentioned the Jill Riley Bot on Twitter, who tweets out a number each time Jill's voice announces one on the air.
And today, we were absolutely stunned by an amazing spreadsheet on Google Docs that is crowd-sourcing detailed info about each of the albums and tracks. There's a lot of data in this spreadsheet, including year of release, artist gender and music genre:
A spreadsheet is one way of depicting statistics, but there are other ways: an infographic, an animation … the only limit is your imagination. So we're asking you: what ways would you depict the 893 Essential Albums data? Feel free to share your ideas, to paste your graphics, links, etc., in the comments section below.
And if you don't have any ideas, that's fine, too; feel free to give our unscientific quiz a try!
Thank you so much for listening to The Current's 893 Essential Albums.