| Acoustic and meta features of albums and songs on the Billboard 200 |
There’s nothing inherently wrong with an extremely long album, but it’s hard to ignore the way it fits into a bigger shift of music discovery and listening trends towards playlists meant to be left in the background.
| 10,700 articles from the print and web versions of the Times ; 11,000 New York Times LinkedIn profiles |
“These places often teach how to succeed in these institutions, which might not be the best lesson for a journalist to learn.”
| 20,783 Pitchfork reviews |
“When you look at Pitchfork’s reviews, what is this person even trying to say? That this is some funky thing? This is like a funky piece of music? It’s really hard to locate what’s actually substantiated in the language, the quantity that’s represented as a number.”
| All the News; Bodies and Spaces on Google Scholar |
Occasionally, these bodies would merge with another element and become something even greater—there were not just bodies, but bodies and spaces, two small nouns that when joined together emitted the intellectual energy of nuclear fusion.
| Trump’s Tweets, updated daily |
Throughout the Silicon diaspora, from its Valleys to Alleys, the data visualizer has donned the mantle of artist and philosopher, illuminating the world’s caverns with his torch of candy colored adjacency matrices. The noise is transfigured not just into signal, but into something of beauty. Information is beautiful! Data is beautiful! Holy holy holy!