Polygraph
poly-graph.co · Group blog · on HN since 2015
Polygraph makes data visualization stories about music, film, and culture, often using Spotify data and hip-hop lyrics.
What HN saysHN commenters link its "timeless" songs analysis on long-term popularity and its rapper vocabulary chart, which one found a source of conversation.
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usrusr · 2015-09-08
Sales numbers are not that exciting when some people can look at actual streaming statistics. Something like http://poly-graph.co/timeless/ with album sales vs median track streaming count would be interesting. (median, because albums are not about hit songs)
jsnell · 2015-09-04
It's not at all clear that popularity at time of publication correlates well with long term popularity for songs. See http://poly-graph.co/timeless/
mfdaniels · 2015-08-25
I actually think that "longevity" is a better term. But I only realized that after I wrote the article. Here's another version of the article that never really was released, which focused on longevity over timeless: http://poly-graph.co/timeless/nodiggity.html
We only have two data points in this work: today and release date. So longer trends like the one you pointed out might be lost in time.
scottkduncan · 2015-08-25
Thanks for this: http://poly-graph.co/vocabulary.html I've gotten hours of conversation out of it.
Also so happy to see that "You Got Me" by The Roots got 6 million streams in 2014. That is the definition of a future timeless track.
danielsf · 2016-05-06