Some might say, the question should be “Why …” – and I don’t have an answer to that, other than to describe my thought processes from my last post, on the first day of May, where I set myself this challenge. A visualisation a day, all on the theme of one album. Did I complete […]
Tag: music
How do you visualise an album?
This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Not to be confused with my previous project, with #AlbumCoversAsDataViz, this is more about how you can visualise the actual contents of an album – its words, its sounds and its structure. I was reminded more recently about this by meeting Stefanie Posavec. When we […]
How do we visualise music?
This post follows on from my recent entry to the latest Tableau IronViz feeder competition. The brief – build a viz in Tableau that “somehow touches on the theme of water”. I decided to take the tangential approach: Handel’s Water Music I’d been interested in looking at how we could visualise music for a while, […]
Exploratory or Explanatory?
Today’s question is all about how much explanation should be included with a visualisation. In terms of your overall look, should you clarify, or simplify? It’s a topic that often comes up in visualisations, and I think it’s one I don’t always get right. Earlier this week I revisited an idea I had following the […]